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First-ever tweet sold for Sh318.69 million

By Reuters | 5yrs ago

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet as an NFT for just over USD2.9 million (Sh318.69 million) dollars on Monday.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students during a town hall at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, on November 12, 2018. [Reuters]

The tweet is in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) - a kind of unique digital asset that has exploded in popularity so far in 2021.

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