Dev enables haters to reject Ordinals, Sotheby’s 2023 digital art sales hit $35M: Nifty Newsletter

A contributor to Taproot Wizards created a script that allows Bitcoiners to reject Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions on their nodes.

In this week’s newsletter, read about what happened to nonfungible tokens (NFTs) in 2023 through one of Cointelegraph’s New Year Specials. Check out how Bitcoiners can run a script to reject Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions and how Sotheby’s sold around $35 million in digital art in 2023. 

Auction house Sotheby’s vice president and head for digital art, Michael Bouhanna, described 2023 as one of the most exciting years for digital art. The executive said the auction house made “close to $35 million” in digital art sales this year. 

Bouhanna said the company made its highest fee for a digital artwork yet, selling an NFT called “Ringers #879,” created by artist Dmitri Cherniak, for $6.2 million.

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Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/dev-enables-haters-to-reject-ordinals-sotheby-s-2023-digital-art-sales-hit-35m-nifty-newsletter