News Articles about Recent NFT Mania and Large Dollar Amounts Paid
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😎 Can you give me a news article about the recent NFT mania which has some striking figures? (Such as amount of money that someone paid for an NFT)
🤖 Sure, I can try to find a news article about the recent NFT mania which has some striking figures. Here’s one that I found from The New York Times [www.nytimes.com]😎 Can you give me another about NFT’s which sell for amounts in the range of thousands of dollars?
> JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace
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> “Everydays — The First 5000 Days,” by the artist known as Beeple, set a record for a digital artwork in a sale at Christie’s.
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> “Everydays — The First 5000 Days” is a collage of all the images that the artist known as Beeple has been posting online each day since 2007. via Christie’s
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> By Scott Reyburn
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> Published March 11, 2021
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> Updated March 25, 2021
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> After a flurry of more than 180 bids in the final hour, a JPG file made by Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, was sold on Thursday by Christie’s in an online auction for $69.3 million with fees.
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> The price was a new high for an artwork that exists only digitally, beating auction records for physical paintings by museum-valorized greats like J.M.W. Turner, Georges Seurat and Francisco Goya. Bidding at the two-week Beeple sale, consisting of just one lot, began at $100.
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> With seconds remaining, the work was set to sell for less than $30 million, but a last-moment cascade of bids prompted a two-minute extension of the auction and pushed the final price over $60 million.
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> Rebecca Riegelhaupt, a Christie’s spokeswoman, said 33 active bidders had contested the work, adding that the result was the third-highest auction price achieved for a living artist, after Jeff Koons and David Hockney.
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> Billed by the auction house as “a unique work in the history of digital art,” “Everydays — The First 5000 Days” is a collage of all the images that Beeple has been posting online each day since 2007. The artist, who has collaborated with Louis Vuitton and pop stars like Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, uses software to create an irreverent visual commentary on 21st century life.
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> Beeple’s collaged JPG was made, or “minted,” in February as a “nonfungible token,” or NFT. A secure network of computer systems that records the sale on a digital ledger, known as a blockchain, gives buyers proof of authenticity and ownership. Most pay with the Ethereum cryptocurrency.
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> “Everydays” was the first purely digital NFT sold by Christie’s, and it offered to accept payment in Ethereum, another first for the 255-year-old auction house.
I think this article is interesting because it shows how much people are willing to pay for digital artworks that are verified by blockchain technology. It also shows how NFTs are challenging the traditional notions of art and value in the digital age. [www.nytimes.com]
[Message flagged as bad_response]😎 This is not what I was looking for. I’m looking for news about people paying large amounts of money for a particular NFT. I want something in the range of thousands of dollars, not the Christie’s example, which is an extreme
🤖 Sure, I can try to find another news article about NFTs which sell for amounts in the range of thousands of dollars. Here’s one that I found from Time [time.com]
> Why Starbucks NFTs Are Being Sold for Thousands of Dollars
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> The company’s project, called Starbucks Odyssey, serves as an extension of their rewards program, in which users can earn perks for buying coffee and completing online games and quizzes.
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> Beata Zawrzel—NurPhoto/via Getty Images
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> By Andrew R. Chow
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> March 9, 2023
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> During the crypto bull market of 2021, countless major brands flooded into the space with their own NFTs (non-fungible tokens), hoping to profit from a very lucrative craze. Two years later, as crypto doldrums have set in, many of those projects have shrunk or been abandoned. NFT sales dropped 83% year-over-year in 2022, according to Non Fungible data.
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> But in December, one of the biggest brands stepped into the NFT world: Starbucks. The company’s project, called Starbucks Odyssey, serves as an extension of their rewards program, in which users can earn perks for buying coffee and completing online games and quizzes. Starbucks called it a “revolutionary Web3 experience,” and hailed the project as “a new, next-generation loyalty program model.”
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> Since the project launched in beta—a testing phase with select customers—in December, it has already raked in a surprising amount of money. More than $200,000 in sales have been completed, with NFTs that cost customers little more than a few cups of coffee being sold on the secondary market for as much as $1,900. Crypto enthusiasts are rallying behind the program on social media, arguing that it serves as the perfect bridge for crypto to enter the mainstream. Bank of America analysts praised the program as being “more holistic than the industry’s prior NFT forays.”
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> On Thursday, a newly released batch of 2,000 Starbucks NFTs sold out within minutes for $100 apiece, with the website momentarily crashing amid the frenzy of activity. Buyers excitedly showed off their purchases on social media soon after.
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> But the hype may be overblown. So far, this frenzy of activity still has little to no bearing on whether most regular coffee drinkers will integrate Starbucks NFTs into their daily habits. While Starbucks has promised future rewards and perks to entice a wider audience, for now, the program appears to be triggering Starbucks adoption amongst the crypto community as opposed to the other way around.
I think this article is interesting because it shows how a major brand like Starbucks is experimenting with NFTs as a way to enhance their loyalty program and attract new customers. It also shows how some people are willing to pay thousands of dollars for digital collectibles that are linked to their favorite coffee chain. [time.com]
[Message flagged as bad_response]😎 What’s the highest dollar amount that has been paid for a Crypto Punk NFT?
🤖 I’m sorry, I couldn’t find any news article about NFTs which sell for amounts in the range of thousands of dollars. Most of the articles I found were about NFTs that sold for millions of dollars, such as the Christie’s example. Maybe you could try a different search term or a different source of information. confused
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🤖 According to the sources I found, the highest dollar amount that has been paid for a Crypto Punk NFT is $7.5 million. This was for CryptoPunk #7804, a computer-generated avatar of a teal-colored, pipe-smoking alien wearing a hat and sunglasses. It was sold on March 11, 2021 by Christie’s in an online auction [beincrypto.com] CryptoPunks are 24×24 pixel art images generated algorithmically that were initially developed and released by Larva Labs in 2017. There are 10,000 unique CryptoPunk characters, with aliens being the rarest, with only nine in existence [www.coindesk.com] [beincrypto.com] [www.coindesk.com]
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