This week's NFTart news
I share with you a news that I selected among the abundant news around the "NFT or crypto-art".
Blockchain community supports American prisoner.
This week, Ulbricht Ross auctioned off his collection of 10 drawings on the Superrare platform from his prison cell. The alleged crime is to have opened a site on the darknet.
Here is the commentary attached to the drawing sold as an NFT.
"Perspective" is a graphite pencil drawing
graphite pencil created in prison. It is part of a
of a unique collection of writings and 10
artworks by Ross Ulbricht, from his early childhood
childhood, adolescence and prison. The
collection also includes an original 2m40s animation by Levitate, created in collaboration with Ross.
The result is incredible. The blockchain community is rallying in support of not only the Ross case but all American prisoners.
Thanks to the funds raised by the sale of an NFT work, according to the article @journalducoin, several causes are thus supported.
In conclusion, the NFTart auction ended on December 8, 2021 at 1446Ξor $6.7M.
- This amount will support the Art4Giving fund.
- With 29,500 views, 500,000 people who signed the petition and 93.6K followers on Twitter, the blockchain community is demonstrating its ability to act.