Nifty News: Ellen's NFT auction flops, Oscars controversy, Kayne's $1.8M snea...
The Golden State Warriors put the 'Legacy Collection' up for auction on OpenSea, the world's most expensive sneakers are fractionalized, and a Chadwick Boseman NFT is roundly criticized. The much-hyped NFT sale by popular talk show host Ellen Degeneres has fallen flat, with the comedian selling just five out of ten available Gold editions of her “Woman With Stick Cat" NFT for $2,500 on the Bitski platform. Sixty-four other people paid $100 each for an open Silver edition of the same NFT.The drawing appears to have been created with minimal effort in a bid to satirize the notion that any....
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The 2021 Oscars took place on Sunday and nominees for the Academy award didn’t have to win an award to walk away with a prize. In a gear shift, NFT for 3D art of the late actor Chadwick Boseman was put in gift bags with other things. But what seemed to be a nice gesture […]
Popular talk show host Ellen Degeneres asked Shark Tank star Mark Cuban about cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens during the Ellen Degeneres Show which aired on Tuesday. Besides explaining cryptocurrency to Degeneres, Cuban tried to convince her to accept dogecoin in her shop. Ellen Degeneres Tries to Understand Dogecoin Shark Tank star Mark Cuban appeared on the Ellen Degeneres Show on Tuesday. Degeneres is a popular comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. Cuban is the owner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) team Dallas Mavericks. “Today, Mark Cuban....
Justin Roiland's piece was listed on a non-fungible token art exchange owned by Gemini. A crypto art piece by Justin Roiland, co-creator of the famous animated series Rick and Morty, has sold for a handsome price on non-fungible token marketplace Nifty Gateway.Dubbed “The First Ever Edition Of Rick And Morty Cryptoart,” the tokenized artwork was sold at silent auction for $150,000. Nifty Gateway announced the news on Twitter on Jan. 19.SILENT AUCTION RESULT "First Rick and Morty Crypto Art" by @JustinRoiland WINNING BID: $150,000 1. blanK Congrats to the winner and to @JustinRoiland! Last....
Is the bitcoin network the most powerful distributed computing system -- hence, the most powerful computer, period -- on Earth? Maybe, although the designation comes marked with a few asterisks. According to Bitcoin Charts, which tracks activity on the distributed global network of bitcoin mining computers, the network has achieved a hashrate (the rate at which new blocks of bitcoins are mined) of 1039.79 petaflops, or more than 1 exaflops. As The Genesis Block points out, that's more than eight times the performance level of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers. (A few notes on....
Christie’s to auction its first purely digital work by Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann through an NFT marketplace. British auction house Christie’s has announced the auction of its first ever “purely digital work of art." Announcing the news Tuesday, Christie’s said that the NFT artwork will be issued in partnership with major NFT marketplace, MakersPlace. Dubbed “Everydays - The First 5000 Days,” the piece was created by Mike Winkelmann, who goes by the name Beeple.According to the official page of the NFT auction, the starting price for the work, which interested parties can bid on from Feb. 25....