{"id":37043,"date":"2021-02-25T18:40:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=37043"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:31:03","slug":"beeples-trump-nft-crossroad-resold-for-6-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/beeples-trump-nft-crossroad-resold-for-6-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Beeple\u2019s Trump NFT Crossroad resold for $6.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The digital artwork &#8220;Crossroad&#8221; by Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, was resold for a record $6.6 million. The non-fungible token (NFT) depicts the former U.S. president Donald Trump, who lost the election.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CROSSROAD<br \/>\nBy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beeple?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@beeple<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The #1\/1 from beeple\u2019s first NG drop has just resold on the secondary market for $6.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>History has just been made.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to beeple and of course to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pablorfraile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pablorfraile<\/a> for the sale. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mTYG4VABSw\">pic.twitter.com\/mTYG4VABSw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nifty Gateway (@niftygateway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/niftygateway\/status\/1364745727889530883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>In December 2020 the artist sold &#8220;Crossroad&#8221; for $582,000 on the digital-art platform Nifty Gateway.<\/p>\n<p>Under Beeple&#8217;s idea, &#8220;Crossroad&#8221; was supposed to change depending on the results of the U.S. presidential election. After Biden&#8217;s victory, it depicts Trump lying in a pile of garbage.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_126039\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126039\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126039\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-5.jpg\" alt=\"NFT-\u0442\u043e\u043a\u0435\u043d \u0441 \u0422\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043f\u043e\u043c \u043e\u0442 Beeple \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u0437\u0430 $6,6 \u043c\u043b\u043d\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-5.jpg 720w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-5-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-5-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-126039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is what the NFT \u201cCrossroad\u201d looks like after Biden&#8217;s victory. Data: Nifty Gateway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the event of a Republican victory, the NFT would have changed to a crowned sports Trump, stomping through the flames.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_126040\" style=\"width: 1190px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126040\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126040\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-41.png\" alt=\"NFT-\u0442\u043e\u043a\u0435\u043d \u0441 \u0422\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043f\u043e\u043c \u043e\u0442 Beeple \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u0437\u0430 $6,6 \u043c\u043b\u043d\" width=\"1180\" height=\"1184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-41.png 1180w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-41-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-41-1021x1024.png 1021w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-41-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-41-768x771.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-126040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is how the NFT &#8220;Crossroad&#8221; would look in the event of Trump&#8217;s victory. Data: Beeple.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In January 2021 the collectibles developer Topps Digital <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bernie-sanders-mitten-meme-immortalised-in-collectible-nft-cards\">introduced 18 NFT cards<\/a> featuring Senator Bernie Sanders wearing mittens.<\/p>\n<p>In early February, actress Lindsay Lohan sold the Lightning non-fungible token on a Rarible auction <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/lindsay-lohan-sells-bitcoin-nft-at-auction-price-tops-70000\">for $70,000<\/a>. The popular meme GIF <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nyan-cat-meme-animation-sells-for-300-eth-at-foundation-auction\">Nyan Cat was sold at the auction<\/a> Foundation for 300 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February, Christie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/christies-to-auction-beeple-nft\">became the first to auction Beeple\u2019s NFT<\/a> \u2014 Everydays: The First 5000 Days.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The digital artwork &#8220;Crossroad&#8221; by Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, was resold for a record $6.6 million. The non-fungible token (NFT) depicts the former U.S. president Donald Trump, who lost the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[991,1280,1213,842,26],"class_list":["post-37043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-nft","tag-politics","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"129","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37045,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37043\/revisions\/37045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}