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Crypto: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
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Crypto: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review, Jeff John Roberts, Omid Malekan, Molly White, Steve Glaveski
February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
2h 13m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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6 HOW NFTs CREATE VALUE

by Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers

In March 2021, a work of art called Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for $69 million at Christie’s auction house. It’s not out of the ordinary to see eight-figure art sales, but this one received a lot of attention because the piece was sold as a non-fungible token (NFT)—an electronic record corresponding to an image that lives entirely in the digital world.

Put differently: Someone paid almost $70 million for a picture on the internet.

Since then, NFTs have started to permeate pop culture in various ways. They’ve been spoofed by Saturday Night Live and embraced by high-profile celebrities like rapper Snoop Dogg and NBA superstar Stephen Curry. As of this writing, there ...

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