The popular "Charlie biting my finger" sold for $ 761,000
Digital works are causing a sensation in the global art market.
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A popular YouTube video clip of two brothers entitled "Charlie bite my finger" joined the list of digital goods that were sold in huge sums according to the popular "NFT" technology for months, as its price reached nearly $ 761,000 following an auction held on Sunday.
This funny clip, published in 2007 and extending over 55 seconds, shows the child Harry putting his finger in the mouth of his baby brother Charlie before the latter bites him to the point that the older brother said: "You hurt me, Charlie," in a spontaneous family snapshot.
The video has become one of the most popular short clips on YouTube with more than 883 million views, but it will be withdrawn from the platform soon. The Davis-Carr family, who published it, announced that they would remove the video after Sunday's auction, indicating that the buyer would become "the sole owner of this beloved piece." From the history of the Internet », despite being copied and shared millions of times over the Internet.
Eleven bidders participated in the sale, which witnessed intense competition, which ended with the victory of the owner of the "3F Music" account, after offering the amount of 760 thousand and 999 dollars.
NFT (Nan Fangible Tokens), a method of encoding via non-exchangeable codes, allows the granting of a certificate proving the authenticity of any digital product, whether it is an image, an emoji, a video, a piece of music, or a press article or something like that.
These digital works are causing a sensation in the arts market, and the daily turnover of them is more than 10 million dollars on digital platforms such as "Nifty Gateway" or "OpenC".
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