Selling Social Media Posts for $1.5 Million? Blockchain-Certified Tweet Sales Spark NFT Controversy
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Selling Social Media Posts for $1.5 Million? Blockchain-Certified Tweet Sales Spark NFT Controversy

THELOGICALINDIAN - The cryptocurrency association is in a agitation this weekend afterwards the architect of Twitter Jack Dorsey tweeted about a new appliance that allows bodies to acquirement tweets with ethereum The appliance is alleged Valuables and it allows individuals to acquirement a agenda affidavit of the cheep which is active and absolute by the tweets creator

Tokenized Tweets for Sale

Tokenization and non-fungible badge (NFT) asset industry accept swelled during the aftermost six months and a abundant cardinal of artists, celebrities, and amusing luminaries accept jumped on the bandwagon.

There accept been 5,368,992 NFT sales equating to $381 actor in sales to-date back nonfungible.com started tallying up the bazaar history. Now a activity alleged Valuables or the Web3 accordant web aperture v.cent.co is attempting to accomplish tweets admired by tokenizing them via the Matic blockchain. But there is a lot of altercation over whether or not tweets can be admired and stored in a allusive way on a blockchain.

On March 5, 2021, Jack Dorsey the architect of Twitter and Square Inc., tweeted about the activity with a cheep that he is selling.

At the time of publication, the architect of the Tron blockchain, Justin Sun, has bid $1 actor dollars for a cheep Dorsey created aback in 2006. The CEO at Bridge Oracle, Hakan Estavi, outbid Justin Sun and is now alms $1.5 actor in ether for the tweet. The two accept been activity aback and alternating in a behest war for the Dorsey cheep actuality awash on Valuables.

The cheep from 15 years ago is back Dorsey wrote “just ambience up my twttr.” With the Valuables program, Dorsey certified his cheep from 2006 and bodies can action to buy the agenda affidavit of the cheep with ethereum (ETH).

Concept Sparks Criticism Toward Tokenizing Tweets on a Blockchain

Of course, not everyone in the crypto amplitude is afflicted with the Valuables activity and abounding bodies anticipate the application’s real-world amount is worthless. Meanwhile, abounding bodies said that Bitcoin maximalists were aloof anxious and the Valuables tokenization of tweets abstraction is innovative. “Welcome to Ethereum, Jack,” one Ethereum backer tweeted in acknowledgment to Jack’s sale. “Surely, you will back a acceptable amount for this tweet. However, the cope and alkali from the maxis: priceless,” he added.

Despite the NFT and tokenization fans, a countless of crypto proponents seemed disillusioned by the abstraction of affairs tweets.

“What happens if you buy someone’s cheep and again they annul it?” software developer Jameson Lopp tweeted. Also, how can you analysis the ecosystem to ensure that a cheep hasn’t been awash assorted times? Point being, I doubtable your buying affirmation is absolutely weak. This looks like a authority system, not an buying system,” Lopp added.

On March 5, the CEO of Kraken Jesse Powell wrote that the purchasing of tweets may accessible Twitter to a accomplished lot of aegis vulnerabilities. “This accomplished affairs tweets affair is putting bounties on Twitter annual takeovers,” Powell insisted. “Hope you all are application U2F aegis keys and not SMS for annual 2FA/recovery.” A cardinal of bodies agreed with the Kraken founder’s appraisal on Friday afternoon.

Meanwhile, Dorsey’s 2006 cachet on the Valuables belvedere is not the aboriginal time that specific cheep has been tokenized. There’s already an absolute appliance alleged Tokenized Tweets (@tokenizedtweets), which has been about back 2019.

Dorsey’s 15-year-old cheep was aboriginal tokenized appliance the Tokenized Tweets belvedere on June 17, 2020. The Valuables FAQ says that tweets can “only be minted already on Valuables, [but the] NFT admitting can be bought and awash an absolute cardinal of times.” It begs the question: Which Jack Dorsey March 21, 2006, tokenized cheep is added valuable? Some would say, however, Dorsey’s NFT excellent is added admired because he certified it appliance the Valuables application.

As far as the acquittal is anxious back a cheep is purchased application Valuables, 95% goes to the aboriginal cheep architect and 5% goes to befitting active Valuables. The activity is run by an alignment alleged Cent and for accessory sales, 87.5% goes to the seller, 10% goes to the creator, and 2.5% goes to aggregation Cent.

What do you anticipate about the tokenization of tweets and affairs them for ethereum? Let us apperceive what you anticipate about this accountable in the comments area below.

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