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Damien Hirst livestreams the burning of $10M in art for NFT project

by Repost Admin October 12, 2022, 5:42 am 1.2k Views

“The Currency” is the name given to Hirst’s NFT project which examines the value of digital art versus physical art.

Britain’s wealthiest living artist, Damien Hirst, has started setting fire to millions of dollars worth of his own artworks as part of his nonfungible token (NFT) project called “The Currency.”

During an Oct. 11 live stream of his London gallery at 12:30pm local time, Hirst burned hundreds of his own “The Currency” artworks, ensuring that they exist only in the form of an NFT moving forward.

“The Currency” is