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'Disaster Girl' meme sells for nearly $500,000 Celine Castronuovo © YouTube/BuzzFeedVideo 'Disaster Girl' meme sells for nearly $500,000 The original copy of a photo that went viral in 2005 and became known as the "Disaster Girl" meme has been sold as a nonfungible token (NFT) for nearly $500,000. Zoë Roth, the woman who as a child was captured in the photo smiling as a house burned in the background, sold the image at an online auction earlier this month. Roth, who is now 21, sold the image to a user identified as @3FMusic for 180 Ether, a form of cryptocurrency. It was w...

I owe it all to Kevin Roose, a writer at the New York Times. In late March, Roose decided to offer one of his columns, specifically the column he was writing to explain NFTs, known as nonfungible tokens, to the highest bidder, with the proceeds going to charity. OK, what is an NFT? Let’s use Roose’s definition: “An NFT, in layman’s terms, is a new kind of digital collectible item that is stamped with a unique bit of code that serves as a permanent record of its authenticity and is stored on a blockchain, the distributed ledger system that underlies Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.�...