Hirst, who began working on conceptual art projects in 2016, has created 10,000 unique and visually similar spot paintings in A4 size.
In July 2021,he announced that these would form the basis of his first NFT collection, The Currency. According to his book, he has so far generated $89m in sales.
A potential buyer entered a lottery to pick up a piece for $2,000.
Those who succeeded had the choice of keeping the NFT and seeing the physical painting incinerated, or swapping it for the original, and destroying the digital version.
The split was even narrower with 5,149 buyers choosing physical pieces and 4,851 holding NFTs.
All 10,000 paintings are displayed to the public at Hirst's Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall, south London.
5,149 works whose owners opted for the physical are greyed out while the remaining are tangibly there, ready for their multimillion-pound bonfire, due to begin today.