Digital artist Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann broke records in 2021 with the sale of his NFT artwork “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” which sold for $69.3 million at auction.
Since then the fervor around NFTs has cooled substantially, with trading volumes plunging by over 90%.
Speaking last week at an on-stage interview with the chief executive of the Design Museum, Tim Marlow OBE, at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, Beeple reflected, “It’s crazy to me to think about those times, because NFTs have been hated for so much longer than they were loved.”
“There was this very brief window where people were like, ‘Yes, this is the future,’” he said. “And then it went right back to like, ‘Oh, you fucking piece of shit, don’t put that evil on me.’”
“We lost a lot of people,” Beeple added, “but those people were never in
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Author: Stephen Graves
