Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has listed his first entry in the online encyclopedia as NFT. Based on the first image of the free encyclopedia to go live, NFT is up for sale at auction house Christie’s, which runs until December 15. In addition, the strawberry-colored iMac Wales used to launch Wikipedia is up for auction. The proceeds will go to charities and WT, a donation-supported social network that Wales launched in 2019. Going to Social.
Wales’ NFT is effectively key to a very early version of Wikipedia that went live in January 2001. “What appears is what Wikipedia looked like when I installed the software,” he tells The Verge. The single-page webpage will be publicly published and, like Wikipedia itself, anyone will be able to view and edit it. But all changes will revert to their original state after five minutes. So on the first page that says “Hello World”. . .
Of course, the buyer can change the terms of reverting edits and close the edit altogether if they really want to. Moreover, it can even close the page.
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This sale is broadly similar to a previous sale by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who transferred the source code to the first web browser and donated the proceeds from his sale to charities. Wales could easily have sold control of the website without using blockchain technology, but he says the idea of public and verifiable ownership is challenging him: “What I think is particularly interesting is that for the first time, we have a public, immutable database of some kind.”
It is an indisputable fact that NFTs have become a highly sought-after commodity that can be sold at auction for large sums. Berners-Lee’s source code, for example, earned him $5.4 million. . .
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