Aside from that eye-popping headline, the same article mentions other sales hitting $7.6 million (CryptoPunks), $6.6 million (another Beeple piece), $382k (Banksy-derived piece), $100k+ (CryptoKitties), etc. Whatever this phenomenon is, big money definitely is getting spent for real – to the extent you consider spending cryptocurrency "real," anyway!
An NFT sold for $69 million just today: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/design/nft-auction-c...
Aside from that eye-popping headline, the same article mentions other sales hitting $7.6 million (CryptoPunks), $6.6 million (another Beeple piece), $382k (Banksy-derived piece), $100k+ (CryptoKitties), etc. Whatever this phenomenon is, big money definitely is getting spent for real – to the extent you consider spending cryptocurrency "real," anyway!