Berners-Lee hopped on the bandwagonamid signsthat the bubble was about to burst.
Security expert Mikko Hypponen spotted some errors in the code.
Hold on…the www source that Sotheby is auctioning?
The angle brackets are wrong!
Theyve been yes HTML encoded from < > to < >.
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Hold on…the www source that Sotheby is auctioning?
The angle brackets are wrong!
Such code would not work and could not be compiled.
Who knows, such an error might make this thing even more collectible for collectors.
The enormous winning bid shows theres still life left in the NFT market.
But it also further exposes what a weird market it is.
Still, the tokens owner could find the blunder adds its own strange sense of value.
But double hold on…
Regardless, I hope they enjoy their ludicrously expensive new certificate.
Update (2:30PM CET, July 1, 2021):Added comment from Mikko Hypponen.
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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
