KUALA LUMPUR – The buyer of Twitter’s first-ever tweet by its founder Jack Dorsey for $2.9m sees it as a wise investment.
“It’s a piece of human history in the form of a digital asset. Who knows what will be the price of the first tweet of human history 50 years from now,” Sina Estavi, a 29-year-old Malaysian national said.
He compared his newly-acquired tweet to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Jack Dorsey’s tweet, “just setting up my twttr,” was first published on March 21, 2006. It was auctioned off by Dorsey for Give Directly’s Africa Response charity.
Estavi, the chief executive of cryptocurrency firm Bridge Oracle, bought the tweet using ether, a rival currency to bitcoin.
It was sold as a non-fungible token, a unique digital certificate that states who owns a photo, video or other form of online media.(BBC)
