‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ NFT buyer decides to leave the original on YouTube

Recently, a non-fungible token (NFT) of viral YouTube video “Charlie Bit My Finger” sold for $761,000. Following the deal, it at first seemed the first would vanish from YouTube to be “memorialized on the blockchain,” however that will not be the situation. 

“After the bartering we associated with the purchaser, who wound up choosing to keep the video on YouTube,” Howard Davies-Carr, the dad of the two siblings who show up in the video, said in a meeting with Quartz. “The purchaser felt that the video is a significant piece of mainstream society and shouldn’t be brought down. It will now live on YouTube for the majority to keep appreciating just as memorialized as a NFT on the blockchain.” 

Davies-Carr proceeded to advise the power source his family offered to delist the clasp to expand its deal cost. “Following 14 years on YouTube through its numerous emphasess, we felt that NFTs would inhale new life into this piece of web history,” he said. The family intends to utilize the returns from the closeout to pay for the advanced degrees of its two children. It will likewise give part of the cash to carbon balance noble cause.