{"id":833,"date":"2021-03-12T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/non-fungible-tokens-are-revolutionising-the-art-world-and-art-theft\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T17:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T16:34:13","slug":"non-fungible-tokens-are-revolutionising-the-art-world-and-art-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/non-fungible-tokens-are-revolutionising-the-art-world-and-art-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-fungible tokens are revolutionising the art world \u2013\u00a0and art theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artists have been dismayed to find their work ending up in the \u2018control\u2019 of others<\/p>\n<p>When the virtual auction bell rang at Christie\u2019s on Thursday, Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist better known as Beeple, made history: he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/mar\/11\/christies-first-digital-only-artwork-70m-nft-beeple\">sold a \u201cnon-fungible token\u201d representing his piece Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, for $69.4m<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But while the new cryptocurrency craze may have brought the high-end art market into the 21st century, it\u2019s also modernising another aspect of the industry: art thieves.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/12\/non-fungible-tokens-revolutionising-art-world-theft\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4f89cf769779c7b04277f25aa9bb6a444990aa78\/0_552_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a50bab2f9129670b9b394ec32e3ddc52\" title=\"Non-fungible tokens are revolutionising the art world \u2013\u00a0and art theft\" \/>Artists have been dismayed to find their work ending up in the \u2018control\u2019 of others<br \/>\nWhen the virtual auction bell rang at Christie\u2019s on Thursday, Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist better known as Beeple, made history: he had sold a \u201cnon-fungible token\u201d representing his piece Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, for $69.4m.<br \/>\nBut while the new cryptocurrency craze may have brought the high-end art market into the 21st century, it\u2019s also modernising another aspect of the industry: art thieves. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists have been dismayed to find their work ending up in the \u2018control\u2019 of others When the virtual auction bell rang at Christie\u2019s on Thursday, Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist better known as Beeple, made history: he had sold a \u201cnon-fungible token\u201d representing his piece Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, for $69.4m. But while the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/non-fungible-tokens-are-revolutionising-the-art-world-and-art-theft\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Non-fungible tokens are revolutionising the art world \u2013\u00a0and art theft<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}