Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist also known as Beeple who has made an artwork every day for over 13 years, talks about the NFT auctions he held last weekend, after learning about crypto two months ago. In the show, he discusses:
  how he got into crypto two months ago, and made $3.5 million in NFT auctions last weekend
 how the objects on sale were more than just jpegs and what physical objects came with the NFTs
 what types of auctions he had, and why some pieces were available for $1 apiece
 how he previously made money as a digital artist
 how he believes digital artists will be able to make money in the future
 why people would pay to own an NFT if they can just get a digital file of the art
 why he incorporated physical objects into his sale
 whether or not this model would work for artists with smaller followings than he has, with his 1.7 million Instagram followers
 what his relationship was with the collector who paid $777,777 for the final piece sold in the auction
 why he chose Nifty Gateway among all the NFT sites
 how NFTs could also change business models for other types of creators besides visual artists
   
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 Episode links:
 Mike Winkelmann: https://twitter.com/beeple
 Video for auction:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlNe6MAwVX/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
 Instagram video showing the digital art displays:  https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIrMctwgfJ1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
  
 Coverage of auctions: 
  https://www.delphidigital.io/reports/beeple-shatters-crypto-art-records-across-the-board/
  
  https://cryptobriefing.com/digital-art-auction-raises-record-million/
  
 https://decrypt.co/51270/beeple-nft-sale
  
  https://twitter.com/niftygateway/status/1338268375156482050?s=20
  
 Rapper Lil Yachty's NFT sale:  https://www.coindesk.com/lil-yachty-collectible-fetches-16k-in-latest-string-of-high-profile-nft-auctions
  
 Link to the Crypto News Recap:
 https://unchainedpodcast.com/3-btc-price-targets/
  

Beeple on How and Why He Raked In $3.5 Million - Ep.156

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