Twitter founder Jack Dorsey auctioned his first post and it sold for just over 300 million yen in Japanese yen.
According to the auction site, the first post made 15 years ago by CEO Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter, was sold for more than $ 2.91 million and JPY 310 million on the 22nd.
The post was made on March 21, 2006 and says, "I'm opening my Twitter right now."
The winning bidder was the owner of a Malaysia-based IT company, who wrote on Twitter after the bid, "People will realize the true value of this tweet over the years, like the picture of Mona Lisa." It was.
On the other hand, Mr. Dorsey donated the profits from the auction to an organization that supports poverty in Africa.
Data exchanged on the Internet can be easily copied, but this post is managed by a technology called "blockchain" used for cryptographic assets such as Bitcoin, and it cannot be copied or tampered with. Auctioned in the form of new digital assets to be auctioned.
Recently, there have been cases where digital art works were sold using the same method, which has attracted attention, but it has also been pointed out that digital data is being sold at high prices.