{"id":45861,"date":"2021-07-10T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45861"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:25:53","slug":"sothebys-sold-a-rare-101-38-carat-diamond-for-12-3-million-in-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/sothebys-sold-a-rare-101-38-carat-diamond-for-12-3-million-in-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotheby\u2019s sold a rare 101.38-carat diamond for $12.3 million in cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby\u2019s, founded in 1744, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/en\/buy\/auction\/2021\/the-key-10138\/an-exceptional-and-magnificent-unmounted-diamond\">\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430\u043b<\/a> a rare diamond weighing 101.38 carats for $12.3 million in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>The auction took place on July 9 in Hong Kong. Bids were accepted in traditional currency, Bitcoin, or Ethereum. The buyer is unknown, and it is not specified which cryptocurrency was used for the transaction.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-46-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sotheby\u2019s \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430\u043b \u0440\u0435\u0434\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0431\u0440\u0438\u043b\u043b\u0438\u0430\u043d\u0442 \u0437\u0430 $12,3 \u043c\u043b\u043d \u0432 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u044e\u0442\u0435\" class=\"wp-image-142044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-46-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-46-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-46-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-46.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><figcaption>Data: Sotheby\u2019s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in Sotheby\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sothebys-to-accept-cryptocurrency-as-payment-for-a-rare-diamond\">assessed<\/a> the diamond at $10\u201315 million and noted that this was the first time a lot of this value had been offered for sale with cryptocurrency as a payment option.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Sotheby\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/banksys-work-sold-for-12-9-million-at-a-crypto-friendly-auction\">sold a Banksy work<\/a> \u201cLove is in the Air\u201d for $12.9 million. It was the first instance of conducting a sale of a physical artwork with the option to pay by Bitcoin or Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog\u2019s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby\u2019s, founded in 1744, sold a rare diamond weighing 101.38 carats for HK$95.1 million (about $12.3 million) in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"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":[526,1269],"class_list":["post-45861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-cryptocurrencies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45861","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=45861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45862,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45861\/revisions\/45862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}