(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 10 - The record black diamond was purchased with a cryptocurrency, perhaps coming from space, auctioned yesterday at Sotheby's for 3.16 million euros (3.75 million euros): Bbc.
In making the announcement yesterday, the auction house had not disclosed the name of the buyer, but after the transaction was completed, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Richard Heart - founder of the blockchain platform HEX - announced on Twitter that he was the new owner of the precious diamond called Enigma. .
And Heart has announced to his over 180,000 followers that he will be renaming the diamond as 'HEX.com diamond'.
Enigma is the largest natural black diamond in the world.
As explained by Sotheby's, unlike classic diamonds that are extracted from the bowels of the earth, black ones are found mostly on the surface, evoking "possible origins and extraterrestrials".
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