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    Artists unite against NFTs

    Jul 09, 2021 5 minutes

    Digital artist Beeple sold a digital collage of his digital drawings for L50 million. The price paid at Christie’s auction house for Everydays – The First 5000 Days was the third-highest for work by a living artist. The buyer bought a nonfungible token – an NFT.

    In May 2007, Beeple – aka Mike Winkelmann – started posting a daily drawing (“By posting the results online “I’m ‘less’ likely to throw down a big pile of ass-shit,” the American said). The collage sold in March 2021 is made of 5,000 images, which works out at about L10,000 per image. You can look at every one of these images (and right-click and save them, if you wanted to) on Beeple’s website (www.beeple-crap.com).

    The NFT file doesn’t contain the collage itself. The NFT that the buyer

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