Bring out the bitcoin! Christie's will accept crypto payments for Keith Haring painting at auction

Art fans can buy a painting by Keith Haring using cryptocurrency at Christie's "20th/21st century" sale in London next week, where works by Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Edgar Degas are also going under the hammer.

The untitled piece, painted in 1984 and celebrating the start of the digital era with the depiction of a computer, has an estimated value of 3.9 million pounds - 4.5 million pounds ($5.42 million - $6.25 million).

The auction house said buyers could make the full payment - the hammer price and full premium - using ether or bitcoin.

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