Tim Berners-Lee’s NFT of world wide web source code sold for $5.4m
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Crypto asset represents ownership of various digital items from when Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989
An NFT of the original source code for the world wide web, written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has sold for $5.4m at Sotheby's in an online auction, the auction house said on Wednesday.
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a kind of crypto asset that records ownership of digital items, and has recently become a major asset in the creative world, with NFTs of artwork, music and internet memes selling for millions of dollars.
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