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Mystery Buyer Who Paid $69.3-M for a Digital Artwork Revealed

Paul Ebeling
Last updated: March 19, 2021 11:16 am
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‘Everydays: The First 5,000 Days’ by Beeple aka Mike Winkelmann, now ranks as 1 the Top 3 most valuable living artists with Jeff Koons and David Hockney. the piece exists only in a jpg file.

A blockchain entrepreneur has revealed himself as the mystery buyer who paid a record $69.3-M for a digital artwork last wk.

Programmer Vignesh Sundaresan, who is based in Singapore, said in a blog post Thursday that he had purchased the most expensive digital artwork ever sold to “show Indians and people of color that they too could be patrons” of the arts.

Around 22-M viewers tuned in to Christies.com on 11 March for the final moments of a bidding process that saw Mr. Sundaresan win the rights to digital artist Beeple’s “Everydays: The First 5000 Days”.

Bidding for the virtual collage of 5,000 image, the 1st purely digital NFT-based artwork ever sold by a major auction house started at $100 then the price skyrocketed.

An NFT, or a non-fungible token, uses the same blockchain technology behind cryptocurrencies to turn anything from art to sports trading cards into virtual collector’s items that cannot be duplicated.

They have recently taken the art world by storm with many seeing them as an opportunity to monetise digital art of all kinds.

These strings of virtual code offer wealthy collectors the rights to ultimate ownership, even if the work can be endlessly shared and viewed online.

Investors meanwhile see digital art as a new commodity to be traded.

“When you think of high-valued NFTs, this one is going to be pretty hard to beat,” Mr. Sundaresan said anonymously via Christie’s, just after winning the bid.

In the detailed blog post Thursday, he credited his rise from an engineering student with “no money” to a millionaire serial entrepreneur to his discovery of cryptocurrencies in Y 2013.

“This is the crown jewel, the most valuable piece of art for this generation,” Mr. Sundaresan said of the piece, that now ranks 3rd among the most valuable artworks ever sold by a living artist, following works by Jeff Koons and David Hockney.

Have a healthy weekend, Keep the Faith!

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By Paul Ebeling
Paul A. Ebeling, a polymath, excels, in diverse fields of knowledge Including Pattern Recognition Analysis in Equities, Commodities and Foreign Exchange, and he is the author of "The Red Roadmaster's Technical Report on the US Major Market Indices, a highly regarded, weekly financial market commentary. He is a philosopher, issuing insights on a wide range of subjects to over a million cohorts. An international audience of opinion makers, business leaders, and global organizations recognize Ebeling as an expert.   
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