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What are non-fungible tokens and how is Jack Dorsey using it to sell his first ever Twitter post? – NEWS.com.au
What are non-fungible tokens and how is Jack Dorsey using it to sell his first ever Twitter post?
The first post multi-billionaire Twitter boss Jack Dorsey made on the platform is up for sale, even though you can see it below for free, as you could have for the past 15 years.It’s one of the first tweets that was ever sent, a few months before the platform had publicly launched.
Now it’s being sold as something called a non-fungible token (NFT), which we’ll get to in a second.
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The tweet is being sold on a website called “Valuables”, whose “FAQ”…
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