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NFT英文全称为Non-Fungible Token,翻译成中文就是:非同质化代币,具有不可分割、不可替代、独一无二等特点。在区块链上,数字加密货币分为原生币和代币两大类。前者如大家熟悉的比特币、以太币等,拥有自己的主链,使用链上的交易来维护账本数据;代币则是依附于现有的区块链,使用智能合约来进行账本的记录,如依附于以太坊上而发布的token。代币之中又可分为同质化和非同质化两种。同质化代币,即FT(Fungible Token),互相可以替代、可接近无限拆分的token。例如,你手里有一个比特币与我手里的一个比特币,本质上没有任何区别,这就是同质化,就是同质化币。
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JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace
JPG文件售价6900万美元,“NFT狂热”步伐加快
After a flurry of more than 180 bids in the final hour, a JPG file made by Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, was sold on Thursday by Christie’s in an online auction for $69.3 million with fees. The price was a new high for an artwork that exists
only digitally. Bidding at the two-week Beeple sale, consisting of just one lot, began at $100. With seconds remaining, the work was set to sell for less than $30 million, but a last-moment cascade of bids prompted a two-minute extension of the auction and pushed the final price over $60 million.
经过最后一个小时超过180次的激烈竞价,周四佳士得在网上拍卖会上以6930万美元(含费用)的价格拍出了一件由数字艺术家Mike Winkelmann制作的JPG文件。对于一件只以数字形式存在的艺术品来说,这个价格创下了新高。在为期两周的Beeple拍卖会上,只有一件拍品,起拍价为100美元。在剩下的几秒钟时间里,该作品的成交价将低于3,000万美元,但在最后一刻,一连串的竞价促使拍卖会延长了两分钟,并将最终价格推高至6,000万美元以上。
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Billed by the auction house as “a unique work in the history of digital art,” “Everydays — The First 5000 Days” is a collage of all the images that Beeple has been posting online each day since 2007. The artist, who has collaborated with Louis Vuitton and pop stars like Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, uses software to create an irreverent visual commentary on 21st century life.
被拍卖行称为“数字艺术史上独一无二的作品”,《Everydays – The First 5000 Days》是由Beeple自2007年以来每天在网上发布的所有图片拼贴而成。这位曾与路易威登和贾斯汀·比伯、凯蒂·佩里等流行歌星合作的艺术家,利用软件对21世纪的生活进行了不敬的视觉评论。
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Beeple’s collaged JPG was made, or “minted,” in February as a “nonfungible token,” or NFT. A secure network of computer systems that records the sale on a digital ledger, known as a blockchain, gives buyers proof of authenticity and ownership. Most pay with the Ethereum cryptocurrency. “Everydays” was the first purely digital NFT sold by Christie’s, and it offered to accept payment in Ethereum, another first for the 255-year-old auction house.
Beeple的拼贴JPG是在2月份制作的,或者说是“铸币”,是一种 “非易失性代币”,或者说是NFT。一个安全的计算机系统网络,将销售记录在数字账本上,即所谓的区块链上,给买家提供真实性和所有权的证明。大多数用Ethereum(以太坊)加密货币支付。“Everydays”是佳士得出售的第一件纯数字NFT,它提出接受以Ethereum(以太坊)支付,这对这家拥有255年历史的拍卖行来说是另一个第一次。
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今日单词
NFT abbr.非同质化代币(Non-Fungible Token);
pace/pe?s/ n.步伐;
flurry/?fl??ri/ n.一阵;
bid/b?d/ n.竞价;
auction /???k?n/ n.拍卖;
consist of 组成;
lot/lɑ?t/ n.拍品;
set to 起劲开始……;
prompt /prɑ?mpt/ vt.催促;
collage/k??lɑ??/ n.拼图;大杂烩;
collaborate/k??l?b?re?t/ vi.合作;
pop star 流行歌星;
irreverent/??rev?r?nt/ adj.无礼的;
commentary/?kɑ?m?nteri/ n.评论;
mint/m?nt/ vt.铸币;
digital ledger 数字账本;
blockchain/?blɑ?kt?e?n/ n.区块链;
authenticity/???θen?t?s?ti/ n.真实性;
ownership/?o?n?r??p/ n.所有权;
cryptocurrency /?kr?pto?k??r?nsi/ n.加密货币;
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