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An Error in Tim Berners-Lee's $5.4m Ethereum NFT Could Increase its Value

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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, HTML: “<”, “>”, ... (full story)

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