{"id":176,"date":"2021-06-10T17:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:15:54","slug":"why-is-an-alien-crypto-punk-worth-ten-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/why-is-an-alien-crypto-punk-worth-ten-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is an “Alien Crypto Punk” worth ten million dollars?"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Well, there are reasons. \u00a0They may not be great reasons, but they do exist.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.christies.com\/features\/10-things-to-know-about-CryptoPunks-11569-1.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

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In 2017, Matt Hall and John Watkinson, founders of New York-based software company Larva Labs, created a software program that would generate thousands of different, strange-looking characters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At first, they thought they might have had the makings of a\u00a0smartphone app or game<\/a>. What they ended up with was a paradigm-altering model for the digital art market and a challenge to the concept of \u2018ownership\u2019 itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larva Labs launched CryptoPunks on June 23, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The CryptoPunks are a collection of 24×24, 8-bit-style pixel art images of misfits and eccentrics. There are exactly 10,000 of them, each with their own ostensible personality and unique combination of distinctive, randomly generated features….<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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*Well, there are reasons. \u00a0They may not be great reasons, but they do exist. https:\/\/www.christies.com\/features\/10-things-to-know-about-CryptoPunks-11569-1.aspx   In 2017, Matt Hall and John Watkinson, founders of New York-based software company Larva Labs, created a software program that would generate thousands of different, strange-looking characters. 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