British Museum enters world of NFTs with digital Hokusai postcards
by Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#5PYDW)
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The British Museum is venturing into the emerging world of non-fungible tokens by partnering with a new platform to launch digital postcards of the work of Katsushika Hokusai.
NFTs - unique digital assets stored on the blockchain - have gripped the arts sector since the digital artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, made history in March by selling an NFT for $69.4m.
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