Non-interchangeable tokens are electronic identifiers that, with the help of blockchain technology, confirm that a digital collector’s item is authentic. The auctioned NFT was created by Berners-Lee in 2021. It confirms ownership of various digital items from the time he introduced the World Wide Web in 1989, including 9555 lines of source code from 1990 and 1991.
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“The symbolism, history and fact that they come from the creator are therefore valuable. There are a lot of people who collect things for these very reasons,” said Cassandra Hatton, who oversees science and popular culture at Sotheby’s.
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In March, Christie’s London auction house auctioned a digital collage of the American author with the stage name Beeple for almost $ 70 million. This was the first major auction of a work of art that does not physically exist.
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That same month, Twitter chief Jack Dorsey auctioned off his first social media post as NFT for $ 2.9 million. The buyer of the tweet paid for the cryptocurrency ethereum.
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