@zacharyhsmall

Oh, I think the craziest example was undoubtedly what happened at Sotheby's with their failed CryptoPunks auction. It was perhaps the best chance that NFTs had to become part of the mainstream art world — there were a handful of influential, traditional collectors in the audience. But the collapse of the $30M sale with an anonymous seller claiming he did it on purpose, using the auction house's valuation as a base line for a a crypto loan, killed the possibility for the time being. You could actually read an excerpt about this, which ran in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/business/sothebys-crypto-nfts-auction.html

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