Famed auction house Christie’s wasn’t exactly sure what kind of demand it was going to see when it announced a $100 starting price for its first-ever digital art auction by way of a non-fungible token, or NFT, in February.
Three weeks later, it had an answer worth $69 million.
A bidding war exploded Thursday to close at a final price of $69.35 million on a collage of work, dubbed “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” from rising digital artist Beeple (also known as Mike Winkelmann.) As Christie’s…
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