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How a pipe-smoking alien became the 'digital Mona Lisa'

Category: Technology
Duration: 00:33:57
Publish Date: 2021-03-17 07:00:00
Description:

Two of the most important sales in NFT history happened last week: Beeple’s $69 million auction through Christie’s, and the $7.5 million sale of CryptoPunk #7804. Dylan Field, the CEO of Figma, was 7804’s previous owner. He joins the show to talk about what selling the punk meant to him, why crypto art is important — and why it’s booming right now — and where the real art lies.

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