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Geplaatst: 19-04-2021 09:16:31 Onderwerp: Edward Snowden's NFT sold for $ 5.5 million at a charity |
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Edward Snowden's NFT sold for 2,224 Etherium, or about $ 5.5 million, in a one-day auction. Access to free digital artwork uses a page from a major court ruling that found many of the National Security Agency's surveillance activities violated the law to recreate the face of a whistleblower based on a photograph taken by Platon is built using open source software and, like other NFTs, is signed and reviewed.
Stay Free's auction slot xo results were already well above the outrageous amount ($ 2.9 million). Jack Dorsey received NFT from his first tweet last month. Like Dorsey, Snowden will not take out his wallet from the auction: the money will go to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a nonprofit in which he serves as president.A NFT or non-convertible token is usually fragments of photos, videos, and other digital objects that have been signed and reviewed by the creator. When someone buys NFT, they gain ownership of the unique code stored in the blockchain.
As we've written in our in-depth explanation of what NFT is, "[Y] you can duplicate files thousands of times, and they all come out the same. But only one file linked to NFT is the real deal.While NFT can help artists and creators. But more and more people are raising concerns about their environmental impact when artists "build" their work on the blockchain so they can create NFTs. Much of the energy, Freedom of the Press vowed to buy a carbon offset equivalent to Snowden's NFT footprint and "will share specifics on the process shortly. |
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