{"id":39557,"date":"2021-03-25T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39557"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:19:52","slug":"the-new-york-times-puts-up-for-sale-its-nft-column-as-an-nft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/the-new-york-times-puts-up-for-sale-its-nft-column-as-an-nft\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times puts up for sale its NFT column as an NFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times journalist Kevin Roose has put up for sale his new column about non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the form of an NFT.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinroose\/status\/1374753980958437378\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As of writing, seven hours remained until the end of the auction on the marketplace Foundation. The highest bid was 21 ETH (about $33,600 at the time of writing). The author of the NFT plans to donate the proceeds to charity.<\/p>\n<p>Roose tweeted that he stepped out for dinner, and in the meantime someone bid more for the NFT than his car was worth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I logged off for dinner and came back and the bid had jumped to 21 ETH (roughly $33,000). This NFT is now worth significantly more than my car. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xgCfsFj67C\">https:\/\/t.co\/xgCfsFj67C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinroose\/status\/1374935491158573060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>TIME <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/time-magazine-puts-three-nft-covers-up-for-sale\">put up for auction<\/a> three of its own provocative covers as NFTs.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-lists-nft-of-nft-song-for-sale\">released a techno track about NFTs in NFT form<\/a> and promised to put it up for sale, but <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-declines-sale-of-nft-techno-track-after-beeples-69-million-offer\">backed out<\/a>. His tweet with the song was posted on the Valuables marketplace. As of writing, the highest bid stood at $1.1 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times journalist Kevin Roose has put up for sale his new column about non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the form of an NFT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39558,"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":[964,1213],"class_list":["post-39557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-media","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39557","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=39557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39559,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39557\/revisions\/39559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}