Rulton Fyder interviewed for New York Times article

Why Did Someone Pay $ 560,000 for a Picture of My Column?

New York City, March 26, 2021

 

New York Times journalist Kevin Roose reached out to Rulton Fyder to get his opinion on why he bid on the NYT column NFT. Fyder concluded, that NFTs might someday have historical significance and were creating a "new digital value system" that was worth taking seriously: 

 

“People from my generation who grow up in the 1970s will love to collect first edition books, novels such as Ulysses by James Joyce,” he wrote in an email. “What crypto and NFT opened up is the ownership of the rights to say one owns such a thing, whether tangible or intangible, in a form that thousands if not millions can see and track the ownership in real time, anywhere in the world.”

 

The entire article can be found here

 

März 27, 2021