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Mar 2021
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WTF is an NFT?

Vox
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On Monday, a tweet sold for $2.9 million. That followed a JPEG that went for $69 million. The Verge’s Liz Lopatto explains how internet ephemera turned to gold.

Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.

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