JAKARTA Sotheby's, the world's leading art auction house plans to offer Non-Fungible Token (NFT) digital art for its customers. If in general the NFT offered comes from the Ethereum network, this time Sotheby's will present a new NFT auction from the Bitcoin blockchain, commonly called Ordinarys. The digital art collection to be offered is Bitcoinshrooms.

This was revealed by the head of contemporary and digital art Sotheby's, Michael Bouhanna. The plan is that the auction house will begin auctioning the digital collection of Bitcoinshrooms on December 13, 2023.

Currently, the NFT has attracted the attention of collectors with the inclusion of a number of offers to Sotheby's. Uniquely, Bitcoinshrooms digital art auctions can only be done using cryptocurrencies as a means of payment such as bitcoin (BTC).

"I am very happy to present Bitcoinshrooms, the sales of the first Ordinary on the Sothebysverse and we cannot start with a better project than that," Bouhanna said on social media platform X.

Ini adalah karya [Ordinals] pertama dari koleksi yang disediakan kepada publik, tambahnya.

The well-known auction house will open the initial price of the Ordinary Bitcoinshrooms auction between 20,000 US dollars (Rp309 million) to US$30,000 (Rp464.9 million). Currently, the Ordinarys digital collection has attracted public attention. Evidenced by the emergence of 46.5 million Ordinarys have been developed on the Bitcoin blockchain since its appearance in January 2023.


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