Digital artist Michael Winkelmann, known by the alias Beeple, sold his painting “OCEAN FRONT” as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $6 million.
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!1111111 MASSIVE CONGRATS TO @justinsuntron !!!!!!!!!!!1111
SIX MILLION DOLLARS for climate change. THIS is what we need to enact real meaningful change… to work TOGETHER instead of fighting one another. 🙏🙏🙏
we CAN do this, we WILL do this. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/htsWhv503l
— beeple (@beeple) March 23, 2021
The buyer of the lot was Tron founder Justin Sun. Beeple will donate the proceeds to climate-change efforts.
The painting ‘OCEAN FRONT’. Credit: Beeple.
Earlier, Beeple sold the work ‘Everydays: The First 5000 Days’ for $69.3 million. The painting is a collage of thousands of the artist’s works published online since 2007. The buyer turned out to be Vignesh Sundaresan, who used the alias Metakovan.
In late February, Beeple’s NFT featuring Trump was resold for $6.6 million. In December 2020, the artist earned $582,000 for ‘Crossroad’.
Back in March, Beeple called a bubble the NFT market.
Earlier, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet as an NFT for $2.91 million. The buyer of the lot was Bridge Oracle founder Sina Estavi.
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