Tag: Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s sold Friday a rare 101.38-carat diamond for $12.3 million in cryptocurrency in a Hong Kong auction to an anonymous buyer. As it’s the highest price paid for gemstone or jewelry in crypto, the auction house called it “a milestone was reached in the adoption of cryptocurrencies.” According to Sotheby’s, a 101.38-carat pear-shaped D color…

Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist and internet pioneer, is auctioning the source code for the World Wide Web as a nonfungible token (NFT) for charity. Bidding — entitled “This Changed Everything” — will start at Sotheby’s in London on June 23rd at 7:00 pm GMT at $1,000 and end on June 30th. Although a…

Recently, a Cryptopunk NFT was sold for almost $12 million among works of other artists during a Sotheby’s auction organized virtually. Sotheby’s looking forward to strong demand for this new type of digital good in the future, even as NFT’s craze stepped down last weeks. A leading Sotheby’s auction house announced on Thursday the sale…