Damien Hirst starts burning hundreds of artworks corresponding to his 10,000 piece NFT collection The Currency after some 4,851 collectors chose to keep their digital asset instead. Launched in July 2021, investors were given a year to decide which to hold—its counterpart would be destroyed. “People think I’m burning millions of dollars of art but I’m not,” Hirst commented on Instagram. “I’m completing the transformation of these physical artworks into NFTs by burning the physical versions.”