The massively popular CryptoPunks NFT collection was buggy and unnoticed at launch - until all 10,000 suddenly sold in 24 hours
Rokas Tenys
When the now-iconic CryptoPunks NFT collection launched in mid-June of 2017, it didn't make much noise.
In fact, the public reaction was near silent, according to a Nov. 11 Wired article titled "The 10,000 Faces That Launched an NFT Revolution." Just a few people grabbed up several dozen of the colorfully funky digital faces, Wired wrote, leaving the creators feeling «sort of silly» about their now-revolutionary concept of tying digital art to the ethereum blockchain to create what we now know as nonfungible tokens, aka NFTs.
Then on June 16, 2017, a Mashable article titled, "This Ethereum-Based Project Could Change How We Think About Digital Art," was published.
People started swooping up digital punks — one man bought nearly 800
Read more on markets.businessinsider.com
