World Wide Web source code NFT sells for $5.4 million at Sotheby's

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By Elizabeth Howcroft
LONDON (Reuters) - A blockchain-based token representing the original source code for the World Wide Web written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee sold for $5.4 million at Sotheby's in an online auction on Wednesday, the auction house said.
The source code was sold in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) - a kind of crypto asset https://ift.tt/3drbB7O which records ownership of digital items.
The NFT was created by the English scientist Berners-Lee in 2021 and represents https://ift.tt/2U8YOQL ownership of various digital items from when he invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
To be sure, the World Wide Web itself has not been sold. What was sold was a blockchain-based record of ownership of files containing the original source code for the World Wide Web. The ...


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