Beeple NFT Sells for $69 Million

Christie's sold Beeple's digital artwork Everydays: The First 5000 Days for $69.3 million in an NFT auction. The NFT used Ethereum rather than Bitcoin and did not change Bitcoin's protocol, adoption rules or market infrastructure.

The sale nevertheless became one of the defining digital-asset cultural markers of 2021. It expanded public discussion from Bitcoin and cryptocurrency into tokenized digital ownership, and it helps reconstruct the speculative and cultural environment in which Bitcoin's 2021 bull market unfolded.