LONDON – A blockchain-based token representing the original source code for the World Wide Web written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee sold for $5.4 million at Sotheby’s in an online auction on Wednesday, the auction house said.
The source code was sold in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) – a kind of crypto asset https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currency-nft-idCNL4N2LE3VG which records ownership of digital items.
The NFT was created by the English scientist Berners-Lee in 2021 and represents https://www.reuters.com/technology/world-wide-web-code-that-changed-world-up-auction-nft-2021-06-15 ownership of various digital items from when he invented …
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