If you used social media a lot, you saw it the first tweet ever. On March 21, 2006 by co-founder and current CEO Jack Dorsey of Twitter, it did not say much: “just setting up my twttr.”
But now, thanks to the wild west of NFTs – crypto-verified tokens that somehow assign unique values and authentication to digital items, you might be able to buy them. Dorsey has become a cryptocurrency proponent, and as such, it’s no surprise that he’s riding the NFT wave by “defeating” the tweet on the blockchain. As an FAQ for valuable articles explains, the item for sale is not the actual tweet that will remain on Twitter; it is a “digital certificate of the tweet, unique in that it has been signed and verified by the maker.”
It does not make much sense to me, but NBA Top Shot and money do not continue in the sports related NFT service either. A Christie’s digital art auction for a piece of Beeple has a high bid of $ 3.5 million, while the NFT attached to the “nyan cat” meme that was recently sold for cryptocurrency was sold for more than $ 600,000 . In addition, while purchasing NFTs can at least theoretically help support artists, especially those in the digital realm, it’s hard to imagine what benefit there is to paying an exorbitant fee to someone like Dorsey, who already is extraordinarily rich.
That said, if you want to participate in the action, you only need to beat the current highest bid of $ 88888.88.