"Bidding for the post reached $88,888 within minutes of the Twitter co-founder tweeting a link to the listing on tweets marketplace Valuables by Cent on Friday night."

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    why the fuck would anyone buy a tweet this is the dumbest shit ever

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Imagine that you have 100k dollars.

      Now imagine it 1000 more times.

      Now imagine you found a weird way to launder money/evade taxes.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        oh so like parking capital in art pieces, but digitally and more repulsively superficial

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah I guess

          Although it sounds dumber than the art thing.

    • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      ah, but you see it makes complete sense because you're actually trading a speculative asset that doesn't even give you ownership of the tweet like trading real art would

  • AlexisOhanian [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Wonder how much CO2 output it cost to sell this NFT tweet.

    Highest offer is $2,500,000 at the moment, and every offer is a transaction. https://v.cent.co/tweet/20

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Everything about the idea of these NFTs makes me want to vomit and destroy all computers. It's fucking increasing climate change for absolutely no reason.

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      They should have bid $14,880 I guess, but that isn't high enough.