Web inventor Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT | Financial Times
Sotheby’s sale will be first time creator has been able to raise money directly from invention
✒ As the creator of the source code behind the world wide web and its first browser, and someone who released it free into the public domain, Sir Tim Berners-Lee does not seem to be merely chasing this NFT craze. This could be an endorsement of the blockchain technology and the philosophy of decentralised network behind it.
Let’s see how much this digitally signed version of the code, analogous to physically autographed copies of a book, could raise in the coming auction at Sotheby’s.
Update: The NFT, named “This Changed Everything”, has been sold for $5.4m.