The first page of “Wikipedia” was sold at auction in the form of NFT for $ 750,000

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The first entry on the Wikipedia website was sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) during the auction at Christie’s in New York for $ 750,000 (RUB 55.2 million), according to the auction house’s website.

It appeared on January 15, 2001 and consisted of a single phrase, Hello, World! (“Hello world!”), Which the founder of the online encyclopedia Jimmy Wales wrote on the launch page. In addition, Wales’ personal iMac, from which he made this recording, went under the hammer for $ 187,500 (13.8 million rubles).

The proceeds from the sale of the lots will be used to develop the alternative social network WT.Social, created by Wales. which, like Wikipedia, exists on donations from users.

This is not the first time that a cultural phenomenon has been “digitized” thanks to NFT technology. Earlier, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet as NFT for $ 2.9 million, and World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee sold for $ 5.4 million a token of the source code on which the technology of the World Wide Web is written.

In early November, director Quentin Tarantino revealed that he plans to sell seven cut scenes from Pulp Fiction and the original handwritten script for the film as NFT. The Miramax film studio filed a lawsuit against Tarantino demanding to ban him from selling the cut scenes, accusing him of copyright infringement. Tarantino’s lawyers believe that the director, under a contract with the studio, retained some of the rights to the film, including the publication of the script, books on the film, soundtrack to it, sequels and remakes.

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