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is Mike Winkelmann, a renowned In 1987, an anonymous buyer paid Charleston-based graphic designer). $39.85 million for Vincent van Other expensive works include Gogh’s Sunflowers – arguably his Beeple’s Crossroads (sold for $6.6 most famous work– and one he million and featuring a Trump-like hoped to sell for just $125. Knowing character naked and lying on the this fact makes it a little hard for grass with obscene writing all over old school art fans to understand his body) and Edward Snowden’s the price fetched by the most Stay Free – an artwork containing expensive NFT sold to date: Beeple’s the court documents deciding that collage-like Everydays: The First the National Security Agency’s 5000 Days, which fetched $69.3 mass surveillance tactics were million at Christie's this year (Beeple illegal.
WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE NFTS
The truth is that many NFTs are eye-catching and beautiful, much like any other product of creativity. Others, however, have prompted smirks and criticism from art experts – including Logan Paul’s NFT comprising Pokemon trading cards as well as videos from clips you could watch anytime you wished to. He has already sold $5 million worth of NFTs and no doubt will be mining more – and who could honestly blame him? e
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