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Blockchain, a technology that appeals to artists

2021-03-19T15:07:52.524Z


This information storage and transmission technology, which operates securely without a central control body, also makes it possible to market graphic creations.


The new “blockchain” technology makes it possible to sell in cryptocurrency (generally via a platform) graphic creations like the example of Beeple but also musical albums or personalities' tweets, in the form of a “non-fungible token”, "NFT", or "non-fungible token".

This obscure name, born in 2017, engraves their DNA in stone, a pledge of a tracing and inviolable authenticity forever.

It is a technology for storing and transmitting information, transparent, secure and operating without a central control body.

It is shared by its various users without an intermediary, which allows everyone to check the validity of the string.

A huge simplification

In an internet world where everything is accessible and reproducible, irrefutable certification of the existence of a work and its data has become an absolute necessity.

For those who create them, market them and buy them.

Collectors like museums and foundations.

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Source: lefigaro

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