If you want to buy Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, you’d better bid. The billionaire co-founder and CEO of Twitter put the tweet on digital auction as an NFT – non-fungible token – a digital asset that continues to live on the Ethereum blockchain. Dorsey’s 15-year-old tweet is on sale on a platform called Valuables by Cent, which allows people to bid on tweets “autographed by their original creators”.
On Sunday afternoon, the highest bid for Dorsey’s tweet, the succinct “just configuring my twttr”, was $ 2.5 million, by Sina Estavi, CEO of Bridge Oracle.
Obviously, you are not buying the actual tweet, but as the Valuables by Cent FAQ page explains, you receive a digital certificate of the tweet with your purchase, which is “unique because it was signed and verified by the creator”.
Dorsey tweeted that he was finishing the NFT auction on March 21 (but not at what time, please, Jack hurry up, we’re on time here), convert the yields into Bitcoin and send to Give Directly for your Africa Response. Give Directly is a charitable organization that, as its name suggests, gives money directly to people living in poverty. So, OK, good job, Jack.
Tweets are not the only items that can be sold as NFTs; technology is also taking over the art world. On March 11, an NFT from a work by Mike Winkelmann – the digital artist known as Beeple – was sold for $ 69 million at Christie’s, making him “among the three most valuable living artists,” according to the home of auctions.
But if you want to have a digital signature (also known as an autograph) of the Twitter CEO’s first tweet, time is running out.