Twitter boss Jack Dorsey put his first tweet up for sale this Friday and the highest bid was $ 2 million this Saturday, a sign of appetite for these new collectibles, virtual items authenticated in the US. blockchain.
“I’m creating my Twttr account,” the platform’s founder tweeted on March 21, 2006. On Friday, he tweeted a link to the “Valuables” site, where fans can bid.
Saturday’s highest bid of $ 2 million came from Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, a platform blockchain, the leading cryptocurrency technology and owner of the BitTorrent streaming platform.
The two million dollar offer came from Justin Sun, founder of TRON, a blockchain platform
“The creator of a tweet decides if he would like to send it on the blockchain to create a unique authenticated version,” explains the tweet auction site.
Buying a tweet means acquiring “a digital certificate of the tweet, unique because it was signed and verified by the creator,” the company says on its question and answer page, like an autograph.
Buying a tweet means a digital certificate of the tweet, unique because it was signed and verified by the creator “
The tweet itself remains visible to all, as long as Jack Dorsey or Twitter leaves it online.
Just as the video footage of basketball games is still visible for free on the Internet, even after being sold in the form of “NFT” (“non-fungible token”) or non-fungible token: a virtual object with identity. , the authenticity and traceability in indisputable and inviolable theory, thanks to the blockchain.
A ten-second clip showing spectacular action by NBA star of the North American Basketball League LeBron James sold for $ 208,000 on Top Shot in late February.
Launched in early October by Dapper Labs, in association with the NBA, Top Shot allows you to buy and sell these video clips, called “moments,” at prices that vary according to their rarity.
Since the beginning of the year, Top Shot has generated more than $ 200 million in transactions, according to a Dapper Labs spokesperson.
In 2019, Justin Sun put $ 4.6 million on the table to have lunch with iconic billionaire Warren Buffett, one of the bitcoin killers.
The “NFT” have been fashionable among collectors for a few months, to the point that the house of Christie auctioned, at the end of February, for the first time, an entirely digital work sold thanks to this technology.
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