Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday sold a show of his very first tweet for more than $ 2.9 million.
The tweet was published on March 21, 2006 and reads:
just set up my twttr
– jack (@jack) March 21, 2006
A two-week war between Bridge Oracle CEO Sina Estavi and tech entrepreneur Justin Sun has pushed the $ 500,000 price tag to final sales of more than $ 2.9 million, with Sina Estavi winning has a bid of 1,630 Ether (ETH).
On March 10, Dorsey announced that the proceeds from the sale would be immediately converted into Bitcoin (BTC), and all of this would be donated to GiveDirectly, an organization that helps those living in poverty in Africa. Following the sale, the CEO tweeted the deal.
Sent to @GiveDirectly Africa Fund Thank you, @sinaEstavi. pic.twitter.com/aEZu07auLV
– jack (@jack) 22 March 2021
The auction was held on the NFT market “Valuable” and closed on March 22nd. The NFT platform allows users to buy and sell Twitter messages and is managed by blockchain-based social media company Cent.
The platform has seen many big names enter the market to sell tweets, including the NBA, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuck, NFL Green Bay Packers and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
John Cleese’s sell you a bridge ‘joke NFT amounts to more than $ 33,000
The popular British comedian and actor, John Cleese, appears to be joking at the NFT gold rush.
On March 20, Cleese posted a video on Twitter announcing that he will be auctioning off his first collection on the NFT market OpenSea.
Identifying himself as a ‘young, unknown, digital artist’, Cleese described the emergence of NFTs as a ‘cultural moment’ that offers a ‘bridge from the past to the future’.
Cleese appeals to the true life story of the American fraudster who fraudulently sold the Brooklyn Bridge to several investors (who were later transferred by police after trying to erect a toll booth on the bridge). a kind of NFT that immortalizes its black and white digital scribble with the Brooklyn Bridge for the modest price of $ 69.3 million dollars.
Hello! It’s time for you to meet my alter ego “Nameless Artist”. I am delighted to offer you the opportunity of a lifetime. I’m selling my first NFT. Even though the bid starts at 100.00, you can “BUY” it NOW for 69 346 250.50! https://t.co/Vuyx4trvPE pic.twitter.com/aC4oSVfGHF
– The Nameless Artist (@JohnCleese) 19 March 2021
Despite Cleese’s aggressive price targets, a bid on the sign started on March 21 at only $ 100, with the price pushing above $ 33,000 as of this writing. The auction will end after ten days of bidding.
In an interview with Vanity Fair on March 19, Cleese noted the NFTs: “The world has finally gone insane.”
PixelPanda NFTs are used to save wild pandas
A new NFT project “PixelPandas” has announced that it will donate 10% of all profits to panda talks. The project will include tokens with images of pandas for each of the 1864 pandas living in the wild, and then auction the tokens in limited portions on the NFT market OpenSea.
One PixelPanda with an 8bit panda in a beanie was purchased for 0.01 ETH on March 19 and was reaffirmed with a asking price of 1 ETH worth about $ 1,700.
The panda’s NFTs are categorized according to their rarity, with the droplets containing ‘ordinary’ pandas, rare ‘Kung Fu’ and ‘bamboo’ pandas, and an ultra-rare ‘Albino’ panda.
Donations of PixelPandas’ income have already funded the adoption of a wild panda by the World Wildlife Fund.
Thanks to you, the PixelPandas community has just adopted our first wild panda !!
Not many people know that there are only 1,864 pandas left in the wild.
With the collection of 1,864 PixelPanda NFTs, we strive to adopt as many wild pandas as possible!# NFTsforgood @WWF pic.twitter.com/O6zsRDJIwv
PixelPandas (@NFTPandas) March 23, 2021
Rico Nasty releases 1 of 1 NFT
Well-known rapper Rico Nasty dropped her first collection on the NFT market SuperRare on March 22nd.
I dropped my first NFT with @donalleniii on @superrare.co!
On Monday 22 March! It was inspired by the OHFR music video, just the first to get the drawn physical hammer of the music video!
to view the auction for the NFT, click on the link —-> https://t.co/7YlyAc84eT pic.twitter.com/x1CHnOyI7K– TACOBELLA (@Rico_nastyy) 20 March 2021
The unique NFT depicts a loop animation inspired by the music video for her recent single, ‘OHFR?’, And was created in collaboration with former DreamWorks animator Don Allen III.
The auction will close on March 25, with the current highest bid at 0.1 ETH worth approximately $ 170.
Nasty’s dive into token art follows other rappers such as Ja Rule, who auctioned off an NFT that charged a painting of the logo from the disastrous “Fyre Festival” in front of him, after co-founding the event in 2017 .