Here are 6+ Interesting Facts About NFTs that You Didn’t Know
NFTs are incredibly interesting, and there have been thousands of cool things happening since the beginning, like when Buzz Aldrin (the man who first landed on the moon along with Neil Armstrong) auctioned relics of Apollo 11’s mission as NFTs on @Sothebys.
Here are 6 interesting facts about NFTs that you didn’t know:
1/ Apollo 11’s Mission
To preserve the relics of Apollo 11’s, Buzz auctioned the infamous pen that saved their lives in space + the broken circuit breaker from Apollo 11 that also come with NFTs as proof of authenticity, minted by MIRA on ETH.
The pen saw bids of $2M USD.
2/ The US Space Force sold their own AR NFTs
On June 2021, The Space Force launched a satellite in orbit in honor of Neil Armstrong + a series of NFTs like a limited edition NFT modeled after the GPS III SV05 satellite, otherwise known as “ARMSTRONG”.
3/ A Mexican entrepreneur burned a $10M Frida Kahlo artwork in real life and is converting it into 10.000 NFTs. He claims part of the proceeds of the sales will go to charities, and the sale ends in November.
4/ Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, auctioned the source code of the web browser as an NFT on @Sothebys. The NFT featured a video of the code being typed out + a signature from Tim.
It sold for $5,434,500. Tim said this about NFTs:
5/ The University of Berkeley sold an NFT of important cancer research IP documents by Jim Allison (Nobel Prize winner) for 55k USD at the time (22 ETH). The document was the first step in protecting the IP for immunotherapy.
6/ F1 has filed 8 trademarks recently for NFT-related upcoming projects
The trademark reveals that F1 could issue its own digital currency or digital token. Also: recently, the owner of a sports memorabilia auction house offered $2M to the fan who caught Aaron Judge’s American League-record 62nd home run ball. Some have told the fan he could get more by auctioning it.
I think it’d be interesting if he does an auction with @Sothebys or @ChristiesInc as an NFT, both are very reputable auction houses that have auctioned NFTs for millions before (or even an NFT collection, who knows) since it’d also live forever on chain.
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It’s interesting how most of these highlight the importance of preservation on the blockchain. That’s bullish for NFTs long-term. We’ll see amazing things for NFTs in the future.
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