-
An Error in Tim Berners-Lee's $5.4m Ethereum NFT Could Increase its Value
Two days ago, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, auctioned off the 30-year-old source code of his creation as an Ethereum-based NFT for $5.4 million at Sotheby’s. But about half an hour after the auction closed, PleasrDAO, a decentralized investment collective that buys expensive NFTs, found an error in a half-hour video of the source code being typed up on a screen. tweet In the video, the characters “<”, “>”, and “&”—part of the source code that Berners-Lee wrote in the computing language C—have been mistakenly replaced by their equivalents from another computing language, ... (full story)