You know the $5.43 million NFT that contained a file on the World Wide Web source code, created by the WWW's own Sir Tim Berners-Lee?" It turns out that there is a scripting error in the video representation of the source code.

This was pointed out on Twitter by Mikko Hypponen, a researcher at F Secure: "The square brackets are wrong!" This is called. If you look at the beginning of the video visualizing the code on the Sotheby's auction page, you can see that where the '<' and '>' character should be, it has been replaced by something else entirely.

In fact, when the video is put together, it is HTML-encoded and switched to '<' and '>'; according to BBC News, this is a tactic sometimes used to protect valuable code, known as 'escaping'. In this case, however, it is suggested that it was a simple mistake and that whoever made the video itself simply took the original text file of the code and ran it through an HTML converter.

This means that anyone who paid $5,434,500 for the NFT, including the original archive of code files, the digital poster, and the README letter by Sir Tim himself, also got this video footage with errors in it.

It is possible that this NFT will be worth more than the enormous amount it was originally purchased for. Consider the ultra-rare stamps that are even more valuable than the original because the printing error makes the queen appear to be winking lewdly. I don't know, I'm not a stamp collector.

We have had a rather cold view of the ecological impact of the blockchain technology behind the NFT nightmare and the fact that the NFT does not appear to be particularly good at protecting authors and artists. But regardless of what we think about NFT, it is good to see Sir Tim donating the entire proceeds of the sale to the charities of his and his wife's choice instead of profiting from it personally.

What a nice man.