Million Dollar Pixel

Long before NFTs and crypto-art, a student named Alex Tew had an idea: sell 1 million pixels on a webpage for $1 each. It sounded stupid. It was stupid. And it made him a millionaire in months. "e;The Million Dollar Pixel"e; traces the history of digital scarcity. It connects the dots between the "e;Million Dollar Homepage"e; of 2005, the insane real-money economy of Second Life, the $600,000 vi...