On Wednesday, CryptoPunk 7804 sold for the equivalent of about $7.6 million in Ethereum, a record for any computer-generated artwork, according to Georg Bak, a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art. prefix = 'artnet_newsletter_'; } He sees Winkelmanns rising sale prices as a way of proving to the public that the technology matters. Lightning-fast by traditional art-market standards, but lava-slow by hard-line crypto standards. It runs. So, Beeple is now the second most expensive card that can't be changed into . var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); } After a storm of bidding in the final few minutes, the digital artwork Everydays: The First 5000 Days by the artist and animator known as Beeple sold for an astounding $69,346,250 in front of 22 million viewers on March 11, 2021.This sale propelled Beeple to the position of third most expensive living artist, behind Jeff Koons and David Hockney.It smashed the record for the most expensive . The record-smashing NFT sale comes after months of increasingly valuable auctions. var expires = "expires="+d.toUTCString(); .done(function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) { '