Sotheby's auctioned three pixelated images from the "BitcoinShrooms" NFT collection on Bitcoin's Ordinals protocol, fetching $450,000—five times the estimates. This marks Sotheby's first sale of Ordinals inscriptions and indicates rising mainstream interest in NFTs on Bitcoin. The debate over filtering out such transactions within the Bitcoin community continues. The images were created by the pseudonymous artist Shroomtoshi.