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Why would anyone buy crypto art – let alone spend millions on what's essentially a link to a JPEG file?

  • Written by Aaron Hertzmann, Affiliate Faculty of Computer Science, University of Washington
Why would anyone buy crypto art – let alone spend millions on what's essentially a link to a JPEG file?Since so much our social lives are lived online, maybe it makes sense for our art collections to reside online, too.Ihor Melnyk via Getty Images

As an academic researcher, developer of artistic technology and amateur artist, I was quite skeptical about crypto art when I first read about it several years ago.

However, I follow a community of artists...

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