Billionaires, Blockchain, Art Set to Collide in Miami

  • Several blockchain events are planned during Art Basel fair
  • ‘Blockchain will completely change the market,’ Lindemann says
Blockchain allows each of the 2,304 digital blocks of Eve Sussman’s "89 seconds Atomized" to be sold separately.Photographer: Snark.art and Eve Sussman

Adam Lindemann tends to have pretty good timing.

He sold a group of radio stations for about $200 million just before the 2008 financial crisis, more than tripling his investment. A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, which he bought for $4.5 million in 2004, sold for $57.3 million two years ago.