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Vignesh Sundaresan and his NFT

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Video. Meet the buyer of the world's most expensive digital artwork

Updated: 16/04/2021 - 19:53 GMT+2

The €58 million sale of a digital collage by the artist Beeple made headlines as the most money ever paid for an NFT. We meet the 32-year-old behind the purchase.

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