Jack Dorsey, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Twitter, a man who labels bitcoin right on his Twitter bio, trying to sell his very first tweet as an NFT – a digital good that lives on the Ethereum blockchain.
You are probably familiar with the famous tweet, “just set up my twttr”:
Despite the fact that this tweet was publicly available as a free digital article to watch when someone has wanted it for almost 15 years, Dorsey is now trying to sell it as an NFT, or ‘non-fungible token’, through of a platform called Valuables. .
As you might rightly expect, the bid is already north of $ 80,000.
What does the “buy” of this tweet actually mean? “What you are buying is a digital certificate of tweet, unique in that it has been signed and verified by the maker,” according to the Valuables FAQ.
In other words, a signature. You buy a signature.
The tweet will continue to remain on the internet as long as Dorsey, and the company Twitter, choose to continue it.