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Art Lover Buys Digital Work for $6.6 Million

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When a painting by a famous artist like Vincent Van Gogh sells for millions of dollars, it makes headlines. But what about a digital work made by a current artist? Would you expect it to sell for $6.6 million?

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That is exactly what happened last week, with a 10-second video made by the artist known as BEEPLE.

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Last year, an art collector from Florida bought Beeple's video for about $67,000. Last week, the collector sold the video for $6.6 million.

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The video artwork shows former U.S. President Donald Trump on the ground, with his body covered in slogans – phrases used by groups to gain attention.

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The marketplace for digital work is growing quickly. Thanks to software that guarantees a digital file is unique, such art buys are becoming more common. The software is called blockchain. It acts as a "digital signature" and proves that an item that may only exist virtually is one-of-a-kind.

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Beeple's real name is Mike Winkelmann. He has another digital work of art that is being sold by Christie's, a famous auction company. The artwork is a collection of 5,000 photos. So far, offers have reached $3 million.

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When the auction ends, Christie's will accept payment in traditional money or in the virtual currency known as Ether.

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Noah Davis works for Christie's. He said, "We are in unknown territory."

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It's not just artwork that is being sold this way.

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For many years, people have traded sports cards -- thick pieces of paper that had pictures of sports stars. Eventually, some of those sports cards became valuable and would sell for many thousands of dollars.

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Sports cards are still popular, but some sports leagues are moving into the digital world, as well.

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For example, the National Basketball Association has a new marketplace for trading short videos, called Top Shot.

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Short videos of big moments from games, like a dunk by LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers, are selling for thousands of dollars. The largest sale on the site so far came in February, when a user bought the dunk by James for $208,000.

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One Top Shot user told the Reuters news agency he had bought items on the marketplace for about $1 million and re-sold them for almost $5 million.

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Experts in the business of buying and selling digital items say people are getting more used to the idea of owning something they cannot touch.

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Andrew Steinwold runs an investment fund that buys and then re-sells these digital files. The fund started in January with a value of $6 million.

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While he said he warns investors to be careful with their money, he also thinks there is the possibility for the market for digital files to increase over time.

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"I think it's going to reach into the trillions of dollars one day," he said.

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I'm Dan Friedell.

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