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By Taylor Locke, CNBC • Updated on May 12, 2021 at 3:13 pm Dia Dipasupil | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images In a historic NFT auction, a collection of CryptoPunks sold for nearly $17 million on Tuesday at Christies. Not a bad sale price for NFTs that were originally giveaways. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. CryptoPunks are an assortment of 24x24 pixelated avatars, each one of a kind with unique features and ac...

By Taylor Locke, CNBC • Updated 1 hour ago Dia Dipasupil | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images In a historic NFT auction, a collection of CryptoPunks sold for nearly $17 million on Tuesday at Christies. Not a bad sale price for NFTs that were originally giveaways. Download our NBC DFW mobile app for Apple or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. CryptoPunks are an assortment of 24x24 pixelated avatars, each one of a kind with unique features and accessori...

CryptoPunks NFT bundle goes for $17 million in Christie’s auction A lot of 9 CryptoPunks portraits ended up selling for just under $17 million in a Christie’s auction Tuesday evening, marking another substantial moment for NFT art sales. The lot of pixelated portraits were from the collection of the NFT platform’s co-creators Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The CryptoPunks platform is one of the first NFT projects on the Ethereum blockchain. Back in 2017, ten thousand of the procedurally ge...

The nine Punks are being sold as one lot. May 10, 2021 Nine CryptoPunks being offered at Christies 21st Century Evening sale on May 13, 2021. Courtesy of Christies. This week, CryptoPunks are the talk of the town. Christie’s is auctioning off a single lot of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, representing a collection of nine CryptoPunks at its 21st century evening sale on May 13 in New York. The auction house expects the lot to go for between $7 million and $9 million, either in actual dollars or...

CryptoPunks Owner Debuts New NFT Project Dubbed Meebits May 4 2021 · 18:48 UTC | Updated May 4 2021 · 18:49 by Benjamin Godfrey · 3 min read Photo: Larva Labs Blog You have successfully joined our subscriber list. Larva Labs is looking to build a marketplace where owners of Meebits can easily trade their assets with one another, mimicking the market being designed to support CryptoPunks. The brain behind the iconic CryptoPunks Non-Fungible Token (NFT) project, Larva Labs are pushing fort...

Dr. William A. Watkinson, II, age 79, longtime resident of Newport passed away peacefully on May 1, 2021 at the Village House Rehab Center in Newport. He was the loving husband of Janet (Hoffman) Watkinson for the last 52 years. Bill was born on March 23, 1942 in Indianapolis, IN to the late William Watkinson and Vona (Cox) Watkinson. After several years in Indiana, his parents moved to Newport and purchased the longtime family home at 372 Broadway where his father established a Chiropractic pr...

Last month, hours before news of Beeple’s $69 million NFT sale grabbed the front pages of newspapers across the country, a pair of 24 x 24 pixel portraits of aliens wearing little hats sold separately for around $7.5 million each. The sales, which occurred within 20 hours of each other, didn’t garner the same headlines that the Beeple auction received, but there was a bit of coverage in the tech press, mostly because one of the aliens was sold by Dylan Field, the CEO of design software star...

"Do You Want To Buy A Bridge? Inside The Strange Fantasy World Of NFTs"... Recently, a piece of collage art entitled “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” by an artist known as Beeple, sold at a Christie’s auction for $69 million. The Wall Street Journal noted that the price was higher than any that has ever been paid for works of Frida Kahlo, Paul Gaugin, or Salvador Dali. But, before the auction, few outside the digital art world had ever heard of Beeple, which may explain why the biddi...

Kenny Schachter Gets Sucked Into the Surreal NFT Vortex… and Makes a Fortune Overnight in the New Virtual Art Market Our columnist describes his entry into the wild, revolutionary, and highly confusing art market springing up around virtual artworks. February 24, 2021 My second drop on Nifty Gateway—woohoo, I reinvented myself in late middle age. Courtesy of Kenny Schachter. While writing this, I’m on WhatsApp chatting to a friend, listening to (yet another) Clubhouse talk drone on, and ...