When art collectors chucked NFTs worth millions in the garbage

A series of NFT artworks collectively displayed on screens in the windows of The Flannels Group Ltd. department store on Oxford Street, London. The NFT market has gone wild, with total sales estimated at US$44.2bil in 2021 according to analysis firm Chainalysis. Photo: Bloomberg

When digital artist Robbie Barrat handed out free NFT coupons at Christie's four years ago, most guests dumped them in the bin, not realising they would soon be worth millions of dollars.

Barrat, then still in his teens, had been invited by the London auction house to talk about the rise of online art.