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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe first-ever tweet sold as an NFT for $2.9 million
New York (CNN Business)Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sold the first-ever published tweet as an NFT, a digital collector's item of sorts. The final bid was $2.9 million.
The tweet, which said, "just setting up my twttr," was published on March 21, 2006. It has been shared more than 120,000 times and liked more than 160,000 times. A digitally autographed version was purchased 15 years later, almost to the day, by Sina Estavi, the CEO of Malaysian blockchain service Bridge Oracle.
"This is not just a tweet! I think years later people will realize the true value of this tweet, like the Mona Lisa painting," Estavi tweeted Monday.
Estavi bought the non-fungible token, or NFT, tweet on "Valuables," a digital platform that allows for the buying and selling of tweets autographed by their creators. He paid for the using the cryptocurrency Ether, according to the website where the tweet was sold.
Dorsey said he will immediately convert the money from the sale to Bitcoin and the proceeds will be sent to Give Directly Africa Fund, a charity that helps people in poverty.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/tech/jack-dorsey-nft-tweet-sold/index.html
The tweet, which said, "just setting up my twttr," was published on March 21, 2006. It has been shared more than 120,000 times and liked more than 160,000 times. A digitally autographed version was purchased 15 years later, almost to the day, by Sina Estavi, the CEO of Malaysian blockchain service Bridge Oracle.
"This is not just a tweet! I think years later people will realize the true value of this tweet, like the Mona Lisa painting," Estavi tweeted Monday.
Estavi bought the non-fungible token, or NFT, tweet on "Valuables," a digital platform that allows for the buying and selling of tweets autographed by their creators. He paid for the using the cryptocurrency Ether, according to the website where the tweet was sold.
Dorsey said he will immediately convert the money from the sale to Bitcoin and the proceeds will be sent to Give Directly Africa Fund, a charity that helps people in poverty.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/tech/jack-dorsey-nft-tweet-sold/index.html
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The first-ever tweet sold as an NFT for $2.9 million (Original Post)
demmiblue
Mar 2021
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efhmc
(14,725 posts)1. I like this part a lot:
"Dorsey said he will immediately convert the money from the sale to Bitcoin and the proceeds will be sent to Give Directly Africa Fund, a charity that helps people in poverty."
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)2. There's a lot of money out there apparently
Layzeebeaver
(1,623 posts)3. But, WWGCD?
What would George Costanza do?