Over the weekend, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey put the first-ever tweet up for sale. So far, bidding has already reached $2.5 million.
To do this, Dorsey created a non-fungible token (NFT) representing the tweet on a platform called Valuables. The idea behind this is that you can create a digital token for each tweet, which can then be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
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— jack (@jack) March 6, 2021
The Twitter CEO is not the only one who’s been experimenting with NFTs and tweets; over the past few weeks, a growing number of people have been monetizing their old social media messages by turning them into cold hard crypto. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao sold his iconic ‘slap yourself’ tweet for $6,600 (which now has a resale offer of $121,000). And there’s a small bidding war for Coin Center spokesperson Neeraj Agrawal’s famous umbrella tweet (which made it onto national news).
But this service isn’t just for the rich and famous, nor for those with huge fol
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