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‘Charlie bit my finger’ video to be auctioned off as NFT | Forkast.News
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One of the most-viewed viral videos of all time is to be auctioned off as a non-fungible token.
--- CHARLIE BIT MY FINGER SELLS FOR $760,999: https://youtu.be/tTlW5LeFsnc ---

“Charlie Bit My Finger – again!” — first posted on YouTube 14 years ago — has been viewed more than 880 million times and will be taken down from the site following the auction.

The 55-second home video, uploaded on May 23, 2007, shows a cute moment between 3-year-old Harry Davies-Carr and his 1-year-old brother, Charlie Davies-Carr, sitting in an armchair when Charlie bites Harry’s finger. “Charlie bit me,” Harry says, before putting his finger back into Charlie’s mouth. Charlie bites harder this time and Harry says: “Ouch!” repeatedly as Charlie starts to giggle. Harry then smiles and says: “Charlie bit me. And that really hurt, Charlie. And it’s still hurting.”

The popular video is being recreated as an NFT — a unique, non-interchangeable digital asset whose authenticity and true ownership is tracked on a blockchain — and sold off at auction on Charliebitme.com. The winning bidder will also have the opportunity to create their own version of the video featuring its original stars, Harry and Charlie.

The auction, hosted by NFT platform Origin Protocol, will start on May 22 — the 14th anniversary of its upload. The video will be deleted from YouTube at the end of the auction on May 23.

But the video will live on as an NFT on the blockchain. Interested bidders will need to register and deposit cryptocurrency ahead of the auction. The auction will accept stablecoins Tether, USDC, DAI and Origin Dollar.

“This video captured our collective consciousness 14 years ago, and this is our chance to get everyone talking about it for one last time before the video is deleted from YouTube forever,” said Origin Protocol co-founder Josh Fraser, in an email sent to Forkast.News.

Origin Protocol was behind American deejay and electronic dance music producer 3LAU’s auction of 33 NFTs for US$11.7 million in February.

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