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It took a few minutes for Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran to realize that theyâd parted with $69.3 million for a digital artwork stored in a JPEG file, coincidentally securing their place in art history.
âWe werenât sure we won,â said Venkateswaran, describing the nerve-wracking final moments of the online auction for a collage of 5,000 images by the artist known as Beeple. âWe kept refreshing the page.â
The March 11 auction at Christieâs in London immediately made Beepleâs artwork one of the most expensive pieces ever sold by living artists, joining a well-known swimming pool painting by David Hockney and an iconic stainless steel rabbit sculpture by Jeff Koons.
Tesla Buying Bitcoin May Have Put Blockchain Tech, Cryptocurrencies at a Key Junction
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Tesla buying Bitcoin by the billions has arguably been the biggest news in the crypto world of late. Even as the Indian government continues to be bearish on cryptocurrencies apart from those controlled centrally, Tesla spending $1.5 billion on Bitcoin to keep the digital currency on its sheets is the first such move by a big corporation, underlining a faint presence of Bitcoin’s everyday applications in its regular discourse. However, Tesla’s investment in Bitcoin is unusual for a publicly listed company, particularly given the most common risks of cryptocurrencies. This very unusual move may have actually put the entire blockchain and cryptography technologies at a key crossroad.