Bidders of the Christie's auction of The First 5000 Days by Beeple 2021, by region
On February 25, 2021, the British auction house Christie's officially launched a one-lot sale of the digital artwork "Everydays: The First 5000 Days" by American artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple. In total, 33 active bidders took part in the sale. About 55 percent came from the Americas, meanwhile, 27 percent of potential buyers were from Europe, and 18 percent from Asia. The piece - eventually sold on March 11, 2021, for the astonishing price of 69.3 million U.S. dollars - is a digital artwork, also referred to as "crypto art". It is possible to prove the authenticity of such digital works thanks to blockchain technologies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These are unique codes that can be assigned to any kind of digital format. This way, even if copies of a digital artwork are shared online, it is possible to determine the original file.
