Report said that a non-fungible token (NFT) depicting an incinerated painting created by Banksy, a renowned British street artist, has sold for nearly $400,000.
It has been reported that the token was sold on NFT marketplace OpenSea for 228.69 Ether, worth around $382,000 approx.
However, the sale followed three days of bidding, with approximately 70 bidders pushing the price up from a starting price of 0.00001 ETH.
The NFT of the Banksy piece is now worth 6 figures. Less than four hours remain until the auction ends đ„https://t.co/1k8EXyUOEZ â Burnt Banksy (@BurntBanksy) March 7, 2021
The NFT was created by âBurnt Banksy,â a group of crypto investors who purchased Bankyâs painting âMoronsâ for roughly $100,000 in February.
âMoronsâ is a painting satirizing the art industry that depicts a bustling auction for a framed canvas donned with capitalized words reading:
âI canât believe you morons buy this shit.â
On March 4, the artworkâs owners incinerated the painting on a Twitter live stream at an unknown location in Brooklyn, New York. The Morons NFT was sold to âGalaxy,â an OpenSea user who currently has four NFTs on display, including a satirical piece depicting renowned artist Frida Kahlo as Kim Kardashian in her infamous âinternet-breakingâ photoshoot from 2014. While the token is the first NFT to represent a verified Banksy painting that has been incinerated, it is not the first to depict an artwork that was destroyed after being tokenized.
The NFT depicts a verified Banksy painting that was incinerated by its owner after being tokenized. https://t.co/DtS4tMaSGf â Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) March 8, 2021
As per the sources, in August 2020, former âThat 70âs Showâ star Ashton Kutcher created a tokenized representation of a notepad scribble depicting a dozen pairs of eyes, a star, and his signature. The NFT was put up for charity auction on the Cryptograph marketplace.
In February, the investor who purchased an NFT created by celebrity Lindsay Lohan then proceeded to burn it, sending the token to a verifiably un-spendable wallet address so that nobody can own or trade the token in the future.
Thus, the decision was commended by the popular crypto commentator, DeFi Dude:
âWhat a chad. Bought Lindsay Lohanâs NFT then burned it. The best part is Lindsay probably has no idea what that even means.â
Source: Cointelegraph | Image: Fizdi
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