Time is running out to bid on an NFT version of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet if you really must
If you want to buy Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, you’d better get your bid in. The billionaire co-founder and CEO of Twitter put the tweet up for digital auction as an NFT —non-fungible token— a digital good that lives on the Ethereum blockchain. Dorsey’s 15-year-old tweet is up for sale on a platform called Valuables by Cent that lets people make offers on tweets that are “autographed by their original creators.”
On Sunday afternoon, the high bid for Dorsey’s tweet, the succinct “just setting up my twttr,” was at $2.5 million, from Sina Estavi, CEO of Bridge Oracle.
just setting up my twttr
— jack (@jack) March 21, 2006
Obviously you’re not buying the actual tweet, but as Valuables by Cent’s FAQ page explains, you get a digital...