It looks like billionaire Elon Musk is selling a recent tweet as NFT or non-fungible testimony.
“I sell this song about NFT as NFT,” said Musk, CEO of EspaceX and Tesla, made a tweet on Monday.
In the Twitter post, Elon released a techno song with the lyrics: “NFT for your vanity. Computers never sleep. It’s verified. It’s guaranteed.”
There’s also a short futuristic video loop, which shows a trophy called “Vanity Trophy” with the term “NFT” at the top and “HODL,” a gesture toward a cryptocurrency community term that means keeping a coin in place to sell, repeated through your fund.
NFTs are unique cryptocurrency tokens that are used to represent digital assets, including jpegs and video clips. NFTs can be bought and sold, as can physical assets. And, since they work with blockchain, you can track a decentralized digital book that documents the transactions, ownership, and validity of the asset that NFTs represent.
Musk’s tweet, including his subtitles, clip, and song, went on sale as NFT on “Valuables,” a platform published by Cent, a blockchain-based social networking network. Currently, the highest bid is from Sina Estavi, CEO of Bridge Oracle, for $ 1.12 million as of Tuesday morning, according to the website. (“Valuables” requires users to log in to the platform through their Twitter account to verify that their true creators do.
According to “Valuables,” the tweet itself “will continue to be posted on Twitter,” but the winning bidder would own the NFT, “signed and verified by the creator,” which in this case is Musk.
Musk is not the first founder to do so.
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, recently sold his first tweet as an NFT through “Valuables”. In March, Dorsey said all proceeds would be converted to bitcoin and donated to GiveDirectly, an organization that helps people living in poverty in Africa.
The top bidder for Dorsey’s tweet was also Bridge Oracle’s Stavi, for $ 2.5 million.
Like Dorsey, Musk has been part of a wave of support in the cryptocurrency space: Under his leadership, Tesla bought $ 1.5 billion in bitcoins in February. And for months, Musk has tweeted about dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that started out as a joke.
Today, Musk is worth $ 182 billion, according to Bloomberg.
A representative of Musk and Estavi did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
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