The author of the ‘Bad Luck Brian’ meme, Ian Davis, and Kyle Craven, depicted in the image, resold the original photo as a non-fungible token (NFT) on the Foundation platform for 20 ETH ($35,760 at the time of writing).
The lot went under the hammer to an unknown bidder as part of a series of 2010s meme-themed NFT auctions. Earlier the creator of the rainbow cookie-cat, Chris Torres sold the Nyan Cat animation for 300 ETH (about $536,000 at the time of writing).
In March, NFT-copy of the burned Banksy artwork titled «Morons» went under the hammer for 228.69 ETH. Former DC Comics artist José Delbo earned $1.85 million from selling non-fungible tokens featuring Wonder Woman.
As noted, the British auction house Christie’s sold Beeple’s NFT titled “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” for $69.3 million.
Earlier, an unknown bought one of the nine Alien CryptoPunk 7804 NFTs for 4,200 ETH (about $7.5 million at the time of writing). The NFT was released in 2017.
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