Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Is Taking Bids for the First-Ever Tweet
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The Genesis tweet is up for sale.
Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey has listed for sale on the NFT platform Valuables the first tweet ever made. As of press time, bidding was at $88,888.
Valuables is an Ethereum-based platform created by the social network Cent that allows users of Twitter to authenticate their tweets for sale to others (think of them as digitally signed copies).
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This is the tweet Dorsey has offered for sale:
Dorsey is a well known fan of bitcoin, making multiple forays into the space. Cash App, from his other company, Square, is a major venue for retail investors to purchase the cryptocurrency. Dorsey also invested in Lightning Labs, a second layer on the Bitcoin network, seen as a scaling solution.
This is Dorsey’s first time showing interest in Ethereum. Many people around the tech industry suggested that the recent boom in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) may partially explain Square’s announcement yesterday that it would acquire the music streaming site Tidal (prior to that announcement, Dorsey announced a collaboration with rapper Jay-Z to expand use of bitcoin in Africa).
Dorsey’s offering of one of his earliest tweets for sale on an Ethereum-based platform should only add fuel to that fire.
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