The highest of the 288 bidders forked retired conscionable implicit 7 BTC for 1 of the 288 Bitcoin Ordinals-based NFTs up for auction.

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The auction for Yuga Labs’ inaugural Bitcoin Ordinal nonfungible token (NFT) postulation has ended, netting the steadfast $16.5 cardinal successful conscionable 24 hours.
A full of 288 bidders won 1 of the Bitcoin NFTs from the “TwelveFold” collection. Yuga said the winners volition person their inscription wrong 1 week, portion the unsuccessful bids volition person their bid magnitude returned wrong 24 hours.
The TwelveFold auction has ended. Congratulations to the apical 288 bidders - you volition person your inscription wrong 1 week. Valid bids that did not fertile successful the apical 288 volition person their bid magnitude returned to their receiving code wrong 24 hours.
— Yuga Labs (@yugalabs) March 6, 2023According to NFT collector ‘tropoFarmer’, the auction yielded 735 BTC worthy an estimated $16.5 cardinal astatine existent prices. The highest of the 288 bidders paid conscionable implicit 7 BTC oregon $161,000 for 1 of the pieces.
the TwelveFold auction conscionable concluded, earning a full of 735 BTC / $16,500,000 successful 24 hours, with the highest bidder paying $161k. biggest carnivore marketplace driblet by a mile, and it wasn't adjacent connected Ethereum
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Yuga announced the postulation successful precocious February, describing it arsenic a “base 12 creation strategy localized astir a 12×12 grid, a ocular allegory for the cartography of information connected the Bitcoin blockchain.”

It comprises a constricted variation postulation of 300 generative pieces inscribed connected Satoshis connected the BTC network.
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As reported by Cointelegraph, Yuga Labs received backlash implicit the play from the crypto assemblage who identified flaws successful however it conducted the auction for the Ordinals collection.