One New York Times (NYT) column sold for 630 million won… What is the NFT

Following art works and houses with NFT (Non-Fungible Token) technology applied, this time, the New York Times (NYT) column was sold for 560,000 dollars (about 630 million won). Time) reported.

It is a column titled’Buy this column with blockchain’ published in the NYT economics page that day.

It was written by Kevin Ruth, who works as a technical columnist, and put his column at auction, saying, “Is there a reason why journalists can’t participate in the NFT trend?

The auction price, which started at 0.5 Ethereum (about 960,000 won), continued to rise, and the final successful bid price reached 560,000 dollars.

Proceeds from the sale of the column will be donated to NYT’s charity fund.

Earlier, the first tweet sent by Jack City, the CEO of Twitter on social media, sold for $2.9 million (about 3.27 billion won).

Also, on the 11th, art works applied with NFT technology were sold for $69.3 million (about 78.3 billion won) at Christie Auction, a world-class art auction company.

The digital house’Mars House’, created by Canadian writer Christa Kim using’NFT’ (Non fungible Token) technology, was also sold for about 500,000 dollars (about 586 million won).

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