{"id":39399,"date":"2021-03-23T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39399"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:22:46","slug":"beeple-sells-new-nft-painting-for-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/beeple-sells-new-nft-painting-for-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Beeple sells new NFT painting for $6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital artist Michael Winkelmann, known by the alias Beeple, sold his painting &#8220;OCEAN FRONT&#8221; as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $6 million.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!1111111 MASSIVE CONGRATS TO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinsuntron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@justinsuntron<\/a> !!!!!!!!!!!1111<\/p>\n<p>SIX MILLION DOLLARS for climate change. THIS is what we need to enact real meaningful change\u2026 to work TOGETHER instead of fighting one another. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>we CAN do this, we WILL do this. \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/htsWhv503l\">pic.twitter.com\/htsWhv503l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 beeple (@beeple) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beeple\/status\/1374188158632464394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe buyer of the lot was Tron founder Justin Sun. Beeple will donate the proceeds to climate-change efforts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128771\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128771\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\u0425\u0443\u0434\u043e\u0436\u043d\u0438\u043a Beeple \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430\u043b \u043d\u043e\u0432\u0443\u044e NFT-\u043a\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0443 \u0437\u0430 $6 \u043c\u043b\u043d\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-5-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-5-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-5-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-5-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-5-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-5-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-128771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The painting &#8216;OCEAN FRONT&#8217;. Credit: Beeple.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier, Beeple <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/beeples-nft-sells-at-christies-for-69-3-million\">sold<\/a> the work &#8216;Everydays: The First 5000 Days&#8217; for $69.3 million. The painting is a collage of thousands of the artist&#8217;s works published online since 2007. The buyer <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/beeple-nft-buyer-reveals-identity\">turned out to be<\/a> Vignesh Sundaresan, who used the alias Metakovan.<\/p>\n<p>In late February, Beeple&#8217;s NFT featuring Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/beeples-trump-nft-crossroad-resold-for-6-6-million\">was resold for $6.6 million<\/a>. In December 2020, the artist earned $582,000 for &#8216;Crossroad&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BcY5PliDjw\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">What is an NFT?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cWhat is NFT?\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-nft\/embed#?secret=7Eh4m2Cmyh#?secret=BcY5PliDjw\" data-secret=\"BcY5PliDjw\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back in March, Beeple <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/beeple-whose-nft-sold-for-nearly-70-million-calls-the-nft-market-a-bubble\">called a bubble<\/a> the NFT market.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/jack-dorsey-sells-nft-tweet-for-2-91-million\">sold his first tweet<\/a> as an NFT for $2.91 million. The buyer of the lot was Bridge Oracle founder Sina Estavi.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital artist Michael Winkelmann, known by the alias Beeple, sold his painting &#8216;OCEAN FRONT&#8217; as an NFT for $6 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,306,1331,1259,1213],"class_list":["post-39399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-charity","tag-culture-and-art","tag-ecology","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"87","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39401,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39399\/revisions\/39401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}