On Jan. 12, an image of a computer-generated pixelated person was sold for about $50.6 million worth of cryptocurrency on a new online marketplace that caters for nonfungible tokens.

It gets stranger.

Five minutes later, the same Meebit NFT ¡ª a virtual character clad in purple shorts and green sneakers ¡ª was sold back from the buyer to the original seller for around $49.6 million.