The first known "NFT" Quantum
March 13th, 2023
- The first known "NFT", Quantum,was created by Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash in May 2014.
- It consists of a video clip made by McCoy's wife, Jennifer. McCoy registered the video on the Namecoin blockchain and sold it to Dash for $4, during a live presentation for the Seven on Seven conferences at the New Museum in New York City. McCoy and Dash referred to the technology as "monetized graphics". This explicitly linked a non-fungible, tradable blockchain marker to a work of art, via on-chain metadata (enabled by Namecoin). This is in contrast to the multi-unit, fungible, metadata-less "Colored Coins" of other blockchains and Counterparty
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Arweave Transaction
Og8Gzm0zDSdbgSP…7htdr4Hh2Ry2k0U
Author Address
0x921D90131fE8A87…6bb72b5f7a2786f
Content Digest
Fiwq-6DoJ80nP8C…EewhVwpWzLmYIzc
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