Hermès Birkin handbags range from $8,500 to $2 million. Unlike traditional bags, the Baby Birkin does not exist in real life and is not manufactured by Hermès. Inside the bag contains a 40-week-old fetus, which is clearly seen from the outside due to the transparent bag. The Hermès bag is sold on the NFT for $23,500. Photo: InputMag. Buyers of Baby Birkin will immediately receive a 3D video of the bag with a resolution of 2,000 x 2,000 pixels, with a proof of ownership token. When admiring the bag, the fetus inside will move and “grow” up to 40 weeks old, to music inspired by space. According to the InputMag , which is also the next difference of Baby Birkin compared to the usual Hermès Birkin bags. Instead of having to go to the store to order and wait for months or years to receive, Baby Birkin buyers will own the product as soon as the auction ends. According to the Basic.Space , the owner of an NFT handbag with the account name Aki Hayashi. There were a total of 32 bids, of which Hayashi made 4 bids and won with the final figure of $23,500. The designers claim this bag is valuable because it is rarer than any other handbag on the market. NFT is a concept that has been in the spotlight recently, when virtual items are traded at sky-high prices. One of them includes painting Everydays: The First 5,000 Days priced at $69.3 million, or Jack Dorsey’s first tweet is owned by a businessman for $2.9 million. Many fashion products such as watches and clothes have been “digitized” and sold on NFT floors, meeting the needs of users to own unique but bogus items. According to the NonFungible , NFT transaction value tripled in 2020, reaching $250 million. In 2021, the NFT fever still shows no signs of cooling down. Like new trends on the Internet, NFT creates mixed opinions about the real value, besides the possibility of just a speculative bubble. Things to know about NFT – the new fever of the world NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. This is a cryptographic token on the blockchain that represents a single asset class.

Start-up Sky Mavis has just received another $7.5 million from investors In addition to billionaire Mark Cuban, the “shark” in the American game show Shark Tank, there are also Alexis Ohanian- Co-founder of Reddit and John Robinson- CEO of 100 Thieves who poured capital into Vietnamese Blockchain game start-up Sky Mavis. With this funding round, Sky Mavis will invest to increase the size of its staff and improve technology, bringing the game Axie Infinity to more players. Founded in 2018 by three Vietnamese and two foreigners, Sky Mavis is a start-up that applies blockchain technology to games, the most prominent of which is Axie Infinity. This is a digital pet universe where players fight, raise and trade cute creatures called Axies. This start-up game received $1.5 million in 2019 in the first round of funding for a blockchain game called Axie Infinity from the Hashed cryptocurrency fund (Korea), the blockchain fund Pangea (Switzerland), ConsenSys (USA) and 500 Startups. Axie Infinity is the first blockchain game in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. According to Sky Mavis data, Axie Infinity is the highest grossing blockchain video game series on DappRadar.com and Dapp.com. This is a gaming ecosystem NFT(Non-Fungible Token) is a major digital asset with over 41,000 daily active users and around 45,000 Axies holders. This game helps Sky Mavis earn more than 15 million USD in monthly NFT revenue. This is also the leading blockchain game of the Ethereum ecosystem. Sky Mavis’s Axie Infinity has acquired the strongest point of this blockchain technology, which is that data will be stored and transmitted in encrypted blocks of information on the Internet. These blocks will play the role of both storing information that can also operate the server, players no longer have to worry about the game crashing or dying midway. Moreover, the player’s information will be kept safe. In addition, a block of information written to the blockchain system cannot be changed, it can only be added when everyone’s consensus is reached, so the issuer cannot interfere. the player’s account, creating absolute fairness for the game. The Axie virtual pet ecosystem also applies a DNA algorithm, which helps determine the shape of the animals when combined, creating a more attractive learning experience for players. The majority of players and know about Sky Mavis’ games from the US, Europe and Japan markets are thanks to the spread on blockchain groups, because the game market applying blockchain technology is still very new. Games with digital ownership, making it possible for players to become owners, are creating a new wave of experimentation and value in the gaming industry, according to experts. Recently, Sky Mavis is the only start-up in Southeast Asia supported by Ubisoft (one of the world’s largest video game publishers) in the fifth Startup Support Program for 8 international start-ups. in the field of social entertainment…

Similarly, TIME has auctioned three of their covers on digital space and earned nearly half a million dollars. The New York Times also sold their “first article in nearly 170 years of history”, earning $ 560,000. This market is becoming more bustling than ever. A tweet by billionaire Mark Cuban sold for a thousand dollars. Beeple, a cartoonist who specializes in caricatures, has sold millions of dollars of his work, even though no one has ever touched his paintings! Video clips of basketball shoots are gathered on a “marketplace” called NBA Top Shot, and its weekly revenue can reach hundreds of millions of dollars. Is digitization a tool so omnipotent that we have to deny the beauty of the real world? Photo source: Getty In all of these deals, the asset is completely virtualized, and it is sold by a technology called Non-Fungible Token (NFT). NFT is a code that records that a certain original asset (tweet, clip, cover …) belonging to any owner is unique and does not have a second. This unique digital version certificate is purchased, not assets that are materialized in physical form. But, these virtual assets, despite the fact that they may not be as physically interactive as real paintings or newspapers, are costing many times as much as the real thing that can be touched, even if you can. Readers feel this is crazy: these things should not even be sold, in the conventional sense of most of us. Modern people are increasingly moving towards the digital world: today, only about 3% of the circulating money exists in physical form, the rest are simply numbers in bank accounts. . Technology companies digitize enormous amounts of data about a person for advertising and business. Never in history have we acted as both the most active producer and consumer of data, as we do now. In fact, we’ve been selling “untouchable” things for a long time: in 2018, the New York Times published a shocking article about the black market on social media. An American company called Devumi has sold hundreds of millions of followers to 200,000 famous customers, TV stars, athletes, and even pastors and models. On Facebook, user accounts were hacked and fanpages were bought and resold for many purposes. But, the sale of NFT pushes the view of digital to an unprecedented extreme: internet products, based on bits of information, are practically something anyone can access and enjoy. The NFT eliminated this indulgence entirely, leaving only the single acknowledgment of ownership. This vision redefines our worldview: without touching and even enjoying it, we can still price and trade at a hefty price. We often tell ourselves that humans are becoming more and more “materialistic”, when the truth is that we are slowly denying the literal materiality of this world. The 1965 American installation artist Joseph Kosuth’s “One and Three Chairs” can make us reflect on our detachment from reality: it consists of a real chair in the middle, to the right of it. is a picture of a chair and to the left is the dictionary definition of a chair. Try digitizing these 3 objects and imagine how much memory it will take up on the computer’s hard drive. The line that defines the chair only needs about one kilobyte of data. The image even has the highest resolution increase, perhaps only up to 10 megabytes. The real chair can, in a way, be considered limitless. The most accurate digital scan can only produce a “map” of its surface features, and even these features can only be reflected with a certain degree of fidelity. No matter how detailed these data points can convey other subtle things, like the feeling of sitting on the chair, or the personality of the carpenter who made it. Digitization is, in this case, completely powerless against a universal object. Real world discrimination But stories that overblown the virtual world continued to be told. In 2014, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen cheerfully wrote a series of tweets on his Twitter account – he himself called them the “tweetstorm” – announcing that computers and robots were about to free it all. we are free from “the constraints of material needs”. He declared that, “for the first time in human history, we have been able to show our true integrity and integrity: we will be whoever we want to be”. Such prophecies can be easily refuted, but in fact they have shaped public opinion. By spreading a technological utopia, defining that progress is fundamentally just technology, these tycoons have encouraged the masses to give up important aspects of their lives and give them away. Allows entrepreneurs and financial professionals from Silicon Valley to freely recreate culture to suit their commercial interests. Pablo Neruda and what remains in his collection of “blunt rags”. Photo source: Alamy Stock In the book “Digitalization” (published in 1995), Massachusetts Institute of Technology founder Nicholas Negroponte said: “Computers are no longer computers. It is about life ”. Silicon Valley is home to more devices and software than anywhere in the world, and more importantly, it has successfully sold an ideology. This “creed” is utopian technologicalism, with the tool of treating digitization as an all-powerful tool and of infinite value. The people from Silicon Valley are fierce materialists: what can’t be measured means nothing. But, they hate matter. From their point of view, the world’s problems, from inefficiency and inequality to illness and death all stem from its physical characteristics, embodying itself in chaos and lack of flexibility. The panacea is a virtual world, and the commonly told story is that this society will be recreated and redeemed by computer code, with a new garden of Eden built out of bits, dissolving the world of things. add to this virtual network. It has led to a huge rise in the price of virtual things, in the expression of a new wave of progress: a picture, no, even a certificate of ownership. Digital painting on the internet is now a thousand times more expensive than a real picture, something we can hang up, touch, look at it every day and see the beauty in it. The real beauty. Not painting stories. In the process of searching for information for this article, I came across a story by Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda: he was a collector of curious objects, such as tubes. bizarre carvings, masks of Africa look rather odd, ships in bottles and whales’ teeth. He wrote in his book “Memories” (1974) that “in my house, I have gathered a collection of toys, large and small, that I cannot live without”. The poems Neruda wrote often praised these seemingly trivial and unique objects. “In my poems,” he wrote: “I cannot close the doors to the streets, just as I cannot close the doors to love, life, joy or sadness.” Today, perhaps we do not often find such people who love things so often, not by the superficial preference of a consumerist, but by someone who understands being able to touch. something and feel it may be the most valuable thing in the world: “Someone who does not play has forever lost the child living in him and he will miss it very much” – Neruda wrote. For Neruda, children are considered materialistic in the purest and purest sense, enjoy the textures, sounds, colors, and smells of objects and are able to live fully in those moments. . In September 1973, during Neruda’s funeral, soldiers following the dictator Pinochet’s truth trampled on the collection and broke most of them. These rough gestures, in a sense, are also regrettable: they lost a chance to see beauty, as Neruda did. Today, no one takes away our right to touch real things with such rudeness. But, it seems that many of us are willing to give this up, for someone else’s story. About things that may not be of any value (compared to something in the flesh) but are being valued in millions.

Edward Snowden’s “Stay Free” NFT photo has skyrocketed after going public. Photo: The Verge. After just one day, from the start of 2 ETH, or $ 4,918, the price of this unique photo has increased by more than 1,000 times, reaching 2,224 ETH (nearly $ 5.5 million) and possibly continuing increase. All profits from the sale of photos will not go to its owner. Instead, this money is financed Press Freedom Organization where Snowden served as president. “New crypto applications can play an important role in helping us,” Snowden stated. This is a photo that is being paid for $ 5.5 million. Photo: Foundation. Snowden is living in exile in Moscow (Russia). As an intelligence agent, he copied confidential information from the US National Security Agency (NSA), sending it to Greenwald and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras in 2013. Based on this information, the above articles The Guardian and The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for the Public Service category. In 2020, seven years after Snowden passed the documents to Greenwald and Poitras, the US Court of Appeal ruled that the government’s mass phone wiretapping program was a violation of the law. Things to know about NFT – the new fever of the world NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. This is a crypto token on the blockchain that represents a single asset class.