Two million euros?
This is the amount that some are ready to put to buy the very first tweet of Jack Dorsey, the boss of Twitter, auctioned Friday by its author.
“I'm creating my Twttr account,” Jack Dorsey tweeted on March 21, 2006.
The highest bid on Saturday - $ 2 million - came from Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, a blockchain platform, the core cryptocurrency technology, and owner of the file-sharing platform BitTorrent.
But it was overtaken a few hours later by another offer - $ 2.5 million - from another blockchain and cryptocurrency player, Sina Estavi, who has already warned on Twitter that he was ready to go so far. 'to $ 10 million.
The idea is surprising ... but it is not new.
Valuables, the site where Jack Dorsey auctioned his tweet, specializes in the field.
So far, the most expensive tweet ever sold, according to the platform, was a tweet from Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance, which sold for $ 6,600 on Saturday.
Prior to this sale, another tweet had sold for $ 1920 in December.
A "digital certificate" in return
Once purchased, the tweet remains on the profile of its author.
It can even be deleted, as one of the tweets sold for $ 639 in December and now deleted.
Which is reminiscent of this canvas by Bansky which had self-destroyed in October 2018, a few seconds after being acquired ...
So what's the point of buying a tweet?
"Owning any digital content can be a financial investment, hold sentimental value and create a relationship between collector and creator," explains in a Valuables FAQ, comparing this purchase to "the creator's autograph on the content, which makes it rare, unique and precious ”.
Concretely, the buyer of Jack Dorsey's tweet will therefore receive a “digital certificate”, signifying that he is the owner.
"It is signed using cryptography and includes original tweet metadata such as: date the tweet was posted, content of the text of the tweet, timestamp of the tweet and digital signature of the address of the creator's crypto wallet, ”explains Valuables.
