The mysterious Singapore investor who spent a record US$69 million (S$93 million) worth of cryptocurrency on a digital collage has revealed his identity.
Metakovan, the chief financier of crypto-based fund Metapurse, had caused a stir in the art world when he bought the landmark work by digital artist Beeple at a Christie's auction on March 11.
On Thursday (March 18), after days of intense media coverage and speculation over his real identity, he announced himself to be Mr Vignesh Sundaresan, an "entrepreneur, coder and angel investor" in blockchain technologies.
He and his collaborator Anand Venkateswaran, who goes by the handle Twobadour, revealed their names in an article on Metapurse's Substack account.
The duo said they are immigrants from Tamil Nadu, India. "The point was to show Indians and people of colour that they too could be patrons, that crypto was an equalising power between the West and the Rest, and that the global south was rising."
https://www.straitstimes.com/life/m...3m-digital-work-at-christies-auction-revealed
Metakovan, the chief financier of crypto-based fund Metapurse, had caused a stir in the art world when he bought the landmark work by digital artist Beeple at a Christie's auction on March 11.
On Thursday (March 18), after days of intense media coverage and speculation over his real identity, he announced himself to be Mr Vignesh Sundaresan, an "entrepreneur, coder and angel investor" in blockchain technologies.
He and his collaborator Anand Venkateswaran, who goes by the handle Twobadour, revealed their names in an article on Metapurse's Substack account.
The duo said they are immigrants from Tamil Nadu, India. "The point was to show Indians and people of colour that they too could be patrons, that crypto was an equalising power between the West and the Rest, and that the global south was rising."
https://www.straitstimes.com/life/m...3m-digital-work-at-christies-auction-revealed
