The New York Times columnist Kevin Roose on Thursday March 25 sold one of his articles in digital form for $ 560,000, the latest episode of the madness around the new "
NFT
"
technology
, which collectors are snapping up.
To read also: "NFT": The new global fever of digital collectables
The article itself was devoted to the initiative of the editorial writer, who aimed to test the market and expand a little more the fields of digital works sold in the form of "
NFT
".
The “
NFT
”, a non-fungible token or “
non-fungible token
” in English, allows a certificate of authenticity to be associated with any virtual object, whether it is an image, photo, animation, video, song. music and now a newspaper article.
This certificate is theoretically inviolable and cannot be duplicated.
It is designed using so-called “
blockchain
” technology, which serves as the basis for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
The “
NFT
”, which has only really become popular for only six months, has boosted the digital collection market, which until now has been considered a niche.
On March 11, a digital work by American artist Beeple, titled "
Everydays: The First 5000 Days
", sold for $ 69.3 million at Christie's.
"
Why couldn't a reporter be part of the NFT party?"
", Read the caption of Kevin Roose's article, titled"
Buy this article on the blockchain! "
(Buy This Column on the Blockchain!).
24 hour auction
After 24 hours of auctioning, a collector who calls himself Farzin and whose username is @ 3FMusic won it with 350 ethereum, or ether, one of the major cryptocurrencies, or around $ 560,000.
"
I just look at my screen laughing without being able to control myself
," reacted Kevin Roose, journalist specializing in new technologies, a few minutes after the end of the sale, on his Twitter account.
The journalist had indicated that the proceeds of the sale, after deducting the 15% commission collected by the Foundation platform on which the auctions were organized, would go to the charities of the New York Times.
On Monday, the co-founder and CEO of the social network Twitter Jack Dorsey had sold, in the form of NFT, his very first Tweet, for $ 2.9 million.
On Thursday, a digital portrait made by the famous robot Sophia, with the collaboration of artist Andrea Bonaceto, was acquired for $ 688,000 during an auction on the Nifty Gateway platform.
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