Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Just Sold His First Tweet for $2.8 Million as an NFT

Dorsey’s 15-year-old tweet adds to the growing list of NFTs fetching a pretty penny

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey just sold the first tweet ever as an NFT, or non-fungible token, for 1,630.58 ether. With the cryptocurrency trading for $1,746 per ether on Monday afternoon, that comes out to more than $2.8 million spent on Dorsey’s tweet.

The tweet — which was posted on March 21, 2006 and reads, “just setting up my twttr” — had been available for bidding since early March on the platform Valuables. The winning bid went to Bridge Oracle CEO Sina Estavi, who also has the current high bid of $1.1 million on a tweet Elon Musk listed as an NFT last week.

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