{"id":39183,"date":"2021-03-18T18:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39183"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:19:25","slug":"beeple-nft-buyer-reveals-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/beeple-nft-buyer-reveals-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Beeple NFT buyer reveals identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The user, known by the pseudonym Metakovan, who bought the non-fungible token (NFT) by artist Mike Winkelmann, has revealed his identity. His name is Vignesh Sundaresan [Vignesh Sundaresan].<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We could have remained pseudonymous, but we decided to drop a few hints with Christie\u2019s, and a few more in Clubhouse. Now here\u2019s the story of how crypto gave two Indians the chance to take part in the largest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFT?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFT<\/a> sale in history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cQ4LdovRzO\">https:\/\/t.co\/cQ4LdovRzO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Metapurse.eth (@metapurse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metapurse\/status\/1372483950216581121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nHe said that naming his name was to show Indians and &#8216;people of colour&#8217; that they too can achieve success. In his words, the cryptocurrency industry levels everyone.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sundaresan&#8217;s profile on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vigsun\/?originalSubdomain=sg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>, he is the chief executive officer of consulting firm Portkey Technologies and co-founder of the cryptocurrency ATM provider BitAccess.<\/p>\n<p>The work <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/beeples-nft-sells-at-christies-for-69-3-million\">went under the hammer for $69.3 million<\/a> at Christie\u2019s. The final bid stood at $60.3 million, but commissions were included in the price. The auction house noted that this made Winkelmann one of the most valuable living artists.<\/p>\n<p>Everydays: The First 5000 Days is a collage of thousands of Winkelmann\u2019s works published online since 2007. The auctions <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/christies-to-auction-beeple-nft\">were announced<\/a> on February 16.<\/p>\n<p>In late February Beeple\u2019s NFT featuring Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/beeples-trump-nft-crossroad-resold-for-6-6-million\">was resold for $6.6 million<\/a>. In December 2020 the artist earned $582,000 for Crossroad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EH674hOmBr\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">What is NFT?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"What is NFT? \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-nft\/embed#?secret=91SZ0sRDNj#?secret=EH674hOmBr\" data-secret=\"EH674hOmBr\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Tesla boss Elon Musk declined to sell a song about NFTs in NFT form, for which Beeple had offered $69 million.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <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 NFT buyer known as Metakovan has revealed his identity: Vignesh Sundaresan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39184,"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":[1213,1256],"class_list":["post-39183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-privacy-and-personal-data"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39183","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=39183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39185,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39183\/revisions\/39185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}