If you’ve used social media a lot, you’ve seen the first tweet of all. Sent on March 21, 2006 by Twitter co-founder and current CEO Jack Dorsey, it didn’t say much: “just configuring my twttr.”
But now, thanks to the wild west of NFTs – crypto-authenticated tokens that assign unique values and verification to digital items in some way – you’ll be able to buy them. Dorsey has become a supporter of cryptocurrency, and as such, it’s no surprise that he is riding the wave of the NFT by “minting” the tweet on the blockchain. As a FAQ for valuables explains, the item for sale is not the tweet itself, which will continue to live on Twitter, it is a “digital tweet certificate, unique because it was signed and verified by the creator.”
That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but neither does NBA Top Shot and money continues to flow into the sports-related NFT service. A Christie’s digital art auction for a Beeple piece has a high bid of $ 3.5 million, while the NFT attached to the “nyan cat” meme was recently sold by cryptocurrency valued at more than $ 600,000. In addition, while buying NFTs can, at least theoretically, help support artists, especially those in the digital world, it is hard to imagine what the benefit of paying an exorbitant fee for someone like Dorsey, who is already extremely wealthy.
That said, if you want to get in on the action, all you have to do is win the current highest bid of $ 88888.88.