NFTs are all the rage nowadays. Many folks believe that NFTs are the future of art, and people involved in the digital world with deep pockets are spending large sums of cash on these unique digital assets.
In Spring 2007, Mike Winklemann, an American digital artist and graphic designer, created a piece of art.After 13 years of posting a new image every day, Winklemann decided to create a collage. He called the piece The First 5,000 Days and sold it on an NFT auction for over $69 million.
Winklemann was born in 1981 in a small town in Wisconsin. He studied computer science at Purdue University, where he spent a lot of time getting involved in creative projects.
The famous collage went for sale in Christie’s auction house.When the piece was eventually sold for $69.3 million, The First 5,000 Days became the third most expensive piece of art ever sold by a living artist and the most anybody has ever paid for an NFT.
Although several rumors were floating around the internet suggesting that Justin Sun had paid almost $70 million for the piece, shortly after the auction ended, Christie’s announced that Metakovan acquired the work.
Vignesh Sundaresan, who goes by the name Metakovan, is the financier and founder of Metapurse. It is a crypto-based company that has done exceptionally well in recent years.