Record: Poem as an ordinal inscription for 0.28 Bitcoin (11.430) auctioned dollars
The poet Anna Caballero
The auction house Sotheby’s has brought a number of Bitcoin Ordinals Insctions under the hammer. In addition to a poem, several works of art achieved remarkable revenues.
It looks like the Bitcoin Ordinales Inscriptions have in the ten days of 12. Up to 22. January of their “Beeples” moment-the moment when the real art market became vigilant and, like the NFTs, they allocated a remarkable value.
The traditional New York auction house Sotheby’s has auctioned a number of ordinary inscriptions with the “Natively Digital” collection during this period. This means pictures and other works of art that are stored as a kind of NFT on the Bitcoin blockchain. Overall, Sotheby’s implemented more than 26 bitcoins – about $ 1.1 million – in the auction.
The Genesis Cat from the Quantum Cat Collection from Far, an artist from the Taproot Wizards area, achieved the highest price. A whopping 6.31 Bitcoin (254.000 dollars) the cat’s art, which is supposed to be a homage to “op_cat”, has a command that was included in the actual scripting language of Bitcoin, but was later deactivated. Shroomtoshis Inscription 21 also scored 101.600 dollars remarkable revenues, as well as AntiMatter #4 from Nullish with 44.500 dollars.
The most exciting is the poem “Cord” by the poet Maria Caballero. The price becomes 0.28 Bitcoin – at least 11.430 dollars – made far from the Genesis Cat, and it is also very far from those astronomical sums that King Krösus put on the short, cryptic stanza – but it is noteworthy that a poem is all the time, and it shows how NFTS or ordinals can contribute to the financing of poetry.
#Auction update: ‘Cord’ by @caballeroanama Achieves $ 11,430 (0.28 BTC).
Accompanying the Digital Piece, The Collector of ‘Cord’ wants to have a signed print of the poem. pic.twitter.com/udltwiqfok
– Sotheby’s Metaverse (@sothebyeverse) January 22, 2024
For Sotheby’s, “Cord” was the first poem that was auctioned in the 280-year history of the auction house, you can see from manuscripts and first editions. Cord is a “Villanelle”, a classic poem form that is hardly used in Germany, which in cord 19 stanzas or. five punches. In terms of content, Cord, as with many poems by Caballero.
“It is an incredible opportunity,” commented Caballero, “a statement to give a statement that words and language and poetry have their own value.“No paper was sold, no music, no visualization. “But only the language of the poem, only the text.”
For Caballero, the auction is not the first experience with NFTS. Together with other poets, she opened a digital gallery for poetry and NFTs, the “Theverseersverse”, an allusion to the more of visual -dominated meta -verses.
