Christie's to accept cryptocurrency for first time
Ether will be accepted at a forthcoming Christie's auction Christie’s is making its “first foray” into cryptocurrency by accepting Ether (ETH), the currency of the Ethereum network, as a payment option in an auction later this month. The auction house will allow the digital currency to be used to buy Beeple's Everydays: The First 5000 Days (2021), which will be on offer in a single-lot sale running from 25 February to 11 March. The work is a pixellated, purely digital work, comprising 5,000 images created daily since 1 May 2007. “To our understanding, ETH is the favourit...
Source: theartnewspaper.com