Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorHundreds of thousands of fans lined up Tuesday to buy digital collectibles tied to Warner Bros.’s upcoming “The Matrix Resurrections” movie at $50 apiece — and quickly swamped the systems of Nifty’s, the nonfungible tokens (NFT) marketplace hosting the sale, prompting the company to pause the sale.Within an hour of opening the “Matrix” NFT site at 1 p.m.
ET Tuesday, Nifty’s halted the purchase queue briefly before restarting it — then paused it again, keeping users in limbo overnight.
As of noon ET Wednesday, there were more than 330,000 users waiting in the queue on Nifty’s website for the chance to buy the “Matrix” NFTs.Earlier this month, Warner Bros.
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