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- Tim Berners-Lee je prvotno kodo svojega izuma, svetovni splet, z vrsto umetniških del spremenil v NFT.
- Koda sama ostaja odprtokodna, vendar bo kupec lastnik njene umetniške predstavitve.
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has auctioned off the 30-year-old source code of his invention as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $5.34 million at Sotheby’s.
NFTs are blockchain-based crypto tokens that prove ownership of a digital or physical asset. Berners-Lee has described NFTs as “the latest playful creations in this realm and the most appropriate means of ownership that exists.”
NFT z naslovom »To spremeni vse,” relates to four items. The first is a collection of time-stamped files containing the source code for HTML, HTTP and URIs -tri temeljne jezike in protokole, ki jih je Berners-Lee napisal v začetku devetdesetih let.
Ostali so tihi polurni videoposnetek, kako nekdo tipka kodo na črnem zaslonu; digitalni plakat kode, ki ga je podpisal Berners-Lee's; in pismo Berners-Leeja z dne junija 2021, ki odraža njegove izkušnje pri ustvarjanju kodeksa.
Since the source code to the web is open source, vse NFT buyer really owns is the artististic NFT package that Berners-Lee designed.
“I’m not even selling the source code,” Berners-Lee said v intervjuju z Guardian objavljeno prejšnji teden. "Prodam sliko, ki sem jo ustvaril s programom Python, ki sem ga napisal sam, kako bi bila videti izvorna koda, če bi bila nataknjena na steno in podpisana z moje strani."
Sotheby’s launched the auction on June 23, for one week, with the minimum bidding at $1,000. The proceeds from the sale will be donated to initiatives supported by Berners-Lee and his wife, Rosemary Leith, via the Fundacija za svetovni splet.
Sotheby’s entered the NFT market in March via a partnership with the Winklevoss-owned crypto art marketplace Nifty Gateway, when it auctioned a piece of art by Turkish 3D artist Murat Pak for $ 17 milijonov. Earlier this month, the auction house sold a CryptoPunk NFT for $11.8 million to DraftKings’ largest shareholder, Shalom Meckenzie.
Vir: https://decrypt.co/74909/tim-berners-lee-web-source-code-nft-sells-5-43-million-sothebys
