{"id":52637,"date":"2021-11-10T09:53:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T07:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52637"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:12:53","slug":"beeple-nft-fetches-nearly-29-million-at-christies-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/beeple-nft-fetches-nearly-29-million-at-christies-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Beeple NFT fetches nearly $29 million at Christie\u2019s auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s auction house Christie\u2019s <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/lot\/lot-6345173\\\">\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430\u043b<\/a> non-fungible token (NFT) by Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, for $28.985 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">A huge congratulations to .<a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beeple?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@Beeple<\/a> whose \u201cHuman One\u201d artwork sold at the Christie\u2019s 21st Century Evening Sale for $28.9M USD. <\/p>\n<p>Another huge moment for NFTs and for the culture we are all trying to build within the traditional art world. Keep going my friends! <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/PcCoGMpYuQ\\\">pic.twitter.com\/PcCoGMpYuQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Farokh.eth (@farokh) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/farokh\/status\/1458249722007785474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">November 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>HUMAN ONE \u2014 a physical sculpture of a man in a spacesuit, moving through varied climate conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Beeple wrote that he could not believe what was happening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">still in absolute disbelief of reality. \u2728<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 beeple (@beeple) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beeple\/status\/1458311491451506689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">November 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, Christie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/beeples-nft-sells-at-christies-for-69-3-million\">sold Beeple\u2019s NFT \\&#8221;Everydays: The First 5000 Days\\&#8221; for a record $69.3 million<\/a>. The final bid stood at $60.3 million, but the price also included commissions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October, CryptoPunk #9998 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cryptopunk-owner-sells-nft-to-himself-for-532m-in-ethereum\">was sold for a record 124,457 ETH<\/a> ($532 million at the time of the transaction). However, the deal turned out to be fictitious \u2013 the owner sold the token to himself.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Christie\u2019s sold Beeple\u2019s non-fungible token (NFT) for $28.985 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Christie\u2019s sells Beeple NFT for $28.985 million.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,1704,1213],"class_list":["post-52637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-beeple","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Christie\u2019s sells Beeple NFT for $28.985 million.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52637","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=52637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52639,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52637\/revisions\/52639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}