Beeple’s ‘The First 5000 Days’ Sold To Metakovan, Founder Of Metapurse, For $69,346,250
'The First 5000 Days' is the first purely digital NFT-based artwork sold at a major auction house, the most expensive NFT ever sold, and the third most valuable artwork sold by a living artist.
![Metakovan is the founder and financier of Metapurse Metakovan is the founder and financier of Metapurse](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2a59140-b6f4-4958-b398-a1a231e73abc_673x378.jpeg)
This story originally appeared on Forbes.
Yesterday at 10a.m. EST, the hammer came down on what would become a historic auction at Christie’s: the sale of Everydays – The First 5000 Days by Mike Winkelmann (better known as Beeple) for just shy of $70 mi…