Serious question, did you know the first digital art piece sold for over $69 million?

I just read that in an old article about the Christie's auction... my brain still can't process that number for a file. Anyone else have a fact that made you just stop and stare?

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elliotl241mo ago

Man that sale broke my brain too. What gets me is how it changed the whole idea of collecting. Before that, owning art meant having a physical thing you could touch. Now the bragging right is literally just a line of code saying you own it. Feels like we're paying for pure concept now.

sam_anderson1mo ago

Pure concept" is exactly it. We're basically buying the idea of ownership now, not the thing itself. That's a wild shift in what we even think value is.