{"id":18976,"date":"2021-03-19T20:27:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=18976"},"modified":"2021-03-19T20:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T20:28:54","slug":"foreign-policy-its-a-69-million-jpeg-but-is-it-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2021\/03\/19\/foreign-policy-its-a-69-million-jpeg-but-is-it-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy: It\u2019s a $69 Million JPEG, but Is It Art?"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFTs are big<\/em> news in the mainstream. I’ve done a pile of actual telly on the subject in the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

So, of course, Foreign Policy knew who to call for a piece! [Foreign Policy<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n

My main thesis is: high art pulls all the shenanigans we know from the crypto world \u2014 but better, and with access to real money and real tax lawyers.<\/p>\n

Amy Castor revealed on Sunday that “Metakovan,” the buyer of the $69 million JPEG, was not only already in business with Beeple, the artist \u2014 he was long-time crypto enrepreneur Vignesh Sundaresan, whose history includes an ICO in 2017 and a failed Canadian crypto exchange, Coins-e, in 2013. Sundaresan denied it at first, but finally admitted it on Thursday. Editor James Palmer got this into the article with a few minutes to spare. [Amy Castor<\/a>; Gulf News<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n

I’ll have to use the phrase “inedible ink” more.<\/p>\n

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