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

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Published Oct 12, 2022 01:11AM ET

Updated Oct 12, 2022 03:40AM ET

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.

Source: Instagram

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