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How it was protected is a bit intriguing as well. 🤔 engineering

Why a gold cube? Castello has billed the 410-pound cube as a conceptual “socle du monde” --base of the world-- sculpture for contemporary days. It's currently not for sale and even if it was, few would afford it.

According to the artist’s team, the cube is worth a whopping $11.7 million and it actually illustrates a pretty cool concept about the world today. “The cube can be seen as a sort of communiqué between an emerging 21st-century cultural ecosystem based on crypto and the ancient world where gold reigned supreme,” said the Viennese gallerist Lisa Kandlhofer to the. And it is indeed based on crypto. Castello is launching an accompanying cryptocurrency alongside the super expensive cube.

As with all things current, the Castello Coin is also accompanied by an NFT auction scheduled for February 21, 2022, while the cube is said to have attended a private dinner with celebrities on February 3, 2022.Although we are now used to art being edgy and contemporary, these installations with accompanying cryptocurrencies can sometimes feel like a bit of a fraud. The story is

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