Mysterious crypto investor Metakovan paid Ether in Beeple auction
Al Jazeera
A digital asset investor who goes by the handle Metakovan and refuses to share his full name paid for the artwork using the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency.
A digital asset investor who goes by the handle Metakovan and refuses to give his full name, announced that he is the buyer of the record-breaking $69.3 million digital artwork that sold Thursday. Christie’s auction house, which hosted the sale, confirmed his statement, also declining to reveal his legal name. “I think this is going to be a billion-dollar piece,” Metakovan says in an interview over Google Hangouts. “I don’t know when.” The work in question is a mosaic of 5,000 artworks made over the last 13 years by Mike Winkelmann, who goes by the artist name Beeple.
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