Back in March, he sold Everydays: The First 5,000 Days for a whopping $69.3 million. That was, and remains, the most expensive non-fungible token ever sold.
Beeple's done it again.
The digital artist has created a dramatic 3D sculpture called HUMAN ONE.
Standing 7ft high, the polished aluminum box features four video screens — and the images it shows are accessed through the Ethereum blockchain.
Dubbed "the first human to be born in the metaverse," a person wearing a space helmet explores a series of dystopian landscapes.
The art shown on the screens is selected from a pool of one-minute video clips.
But here's a particularly cool feature: Beeple plans to continually add new imagery throughout his lifetime — reflecting the changing world we live in, and creating a special bond with the artwork's owner.
HUMAN ONE went under the hammer in New York on Tuesday night and sold for $28.9 million — way more than the $15 million that Christie's had been expecting. The lucky winner was an online bidder who is based in Switzerland.
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Big Money
Beeple — whose real name is Mike Winkelmann — is making a killing from NFTs.
Back in March, he sold Everydays: The First 5,000 Days for a whopping $69.3 million. That was, and remains, the most expensive non-fungible token ever sold.
This latest purchase means that Beeple also holds the record for the second most-expensive NFT ever sold.
Speaking to CNN earlier this year, Beeple himself said he fears that the world of NFTs is in a bubble — drawing parallels to the dotcom boom and bust of the 1990s.
Speaking at Decrypt and Yahoo! Finance's Crypto Goes Mainstream event, NFT entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk expressed similar concerns, warning:
"The conversation is about to get very interesting when we hit an NFT winter, because there's way too much short-term greed, and supply and demand issues."
