Twitter Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey first tweet has been offered for almost $48 million on nonfungible token marketplace OpenSea.
Estavi, the chief executive officer of Malaysian blockchain service Bridge Oracle, announced on Twitter that he’d put the NFT version of the March 21, 2006 tweet saying “just setting up my twttr” up for sale for 14 969 Ether.
He paid $2.9 million for it in March last year.
As a follow up to his initial tweet, Estavi promised to donate 50% of the proceeds to the charity GiveDirectly, which gives cash to people living in poverty, and which Dorsey had said he’d supported after the first sale of the NFT.
Dorsey responded on Twitter: “why not 99% of it?” He directed his response to Estavi, GiveDirectly and Tesla Inc. founder, Elon Musk.
Twitter’s stock noticed a significant increase of up to 27% on Monday after news broke that Musk had taken a 9.2% stake in the company.
Days later, Twitter appointed the billionaire CEO to its board of directors.
