If you want to buy the first tweet from Jack Dorsey, you should rather submit your bid. The billionaire co-founder and CEO of Twitter presented the tweet at a digital auction as an NFT – non-fungible sign – a digital good that survives the Ethereum blockchain. Dorsey’s 15-year-old tweet is for sale on a platform called Valuables by Cent that allows people to bid on tweets “signed by their original creators.”
On Sunday afternoon, the high bid for Dorsey’s tweet, the concise ‘just setting up my twttr’, was $ 2.5 million from Sina Estavi, CEO of Bridge Oracle.
Obviously you are not buying the actual tweet, but as the valuable page of Valuables by Cent explains, you will receive a digital certificate of the tweet with your purchase, which is unique because it was signed and verified by the maker. ‘
Dorsey tweeted that he was ending the NFT auction on March 21 (but not at what time, hurry up Jack, we are on the deadline here), will convert the proceeds to Bitcoin and then send to Give Direct for its Africa response. Give Directly is a charity that, as its name suggests, gives money directly to people living in poverty. So, OK, good job there, Jack.
Tweets are not the only items that can be sold as NFTs; the technology is also taking over the art world. On March 11, an NFT of a work by Mike Winkelmann – the digital artist known as Beeple – sold for $ 69 million at Christie’s, which according to the auction house is ‘one of the three most valuable artists’.
But if you want to get a digital signature (or a signature) of the Twitter CEO’s first tweet, ring the clock.