{"id":14509,"date":"2021-11-01T12:57:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=14509"},"modified":"2021-11-01T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:57:55","slug":"an-nft-just-sold-for-532-million-but-didnt-really-sell-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=14509","title":{"rendered":"An NFT Just Sold for $532 Million, But Didn\u2019t Really Sell at All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A white-haired, green-eyed pixelated character known as a CryptoPunk 9998 just sold for more than half a billion U.S. dollars &#8212; or so it appeared &#8212; the latest wild development in the booming non-fungible token space. But the Ethereum blockchain shows the money from the NFT trade ended up right back where it started, raising the question of why anyone bothered.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-10-29\/here-s-a-532-million-nft-trade-that-wasn-t-what-it-appeared\">An NFT Just Sold for $532 Million, But Didn\u2019t Really Sell at All<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A white-haired, green-eyed pixelated character known as a CryptoPunk 9998 just sold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[476,49,540],"class_list":["post-14509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto","tag-nft","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}