Just went down a rabbit hole on NFT history and wow, some of these prices are absolutely wild. Pak's The Merge is still the most expensive nft sold ever at $91.8M back in 2021. What's crazy is it wasn't even owned by one person - like 28k collectors pooled their money to buy different quantities of it. That's actually kind of genius if you think about it.

Beeple's been making serious moves too. His Everydays piece went for $69M at Christie's, and apparently he started that as just a daily art project back in 2007. One image every single day for 5000 days straight. The most expensive nft sold in that category honestly deserves the hype.

Then there's the whole CryptoPunks saga. Those early pixelated avatars from 2017 are still commanding millions. CryptoPunk #5822 hit $23M because it's one of only 9 alien punks. The rarest ones keep breaking records - #7804 sold for over $7M just because it had a pipe and some other rare attributes. Collectors are obsessed with these things.

But here's what gets me - the most expensive nft sold doesn't always stay the most expensive. Prices keep shifting. Like Clock, that Pak and Julian Assange collab, went for $52.7M in 2022 because it literally counted the days Assange was imprisoned. That's not just art, that's activism.

Honest take though? 95% of NFTs apparently have basically zero value now. So yeah, some people made insane money on the most expensive nft sold, but for every Beeple there's thousands of projects that flopped. The market's cooled way down from 2021-2022 hype, but the blue-chip collections like CryptoPunks and BAYC still hold value. Wild times in digital art for sure.