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Jack Dorsey is attempting to sell his first tweet as an NFT

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So basically it's an odd form of a digital autograph associated with this tweet, that the owner presumably agrees not to autograph again and sell to other people.

What you are purchasing is a digital certificate of the tweet, unique because it has been signed and verified by the creator So basically it's an odd form of a digital autograph associated with this tweet, that the owner presumably agrees not to autograph again and sell to other people. What happens if the autograph owner emails the hash to their friends? What does “own” mean here? They can all print it and frame it on the wall. Meanwhile Twitter’s data systems go down and the tweet disappears, no one “has” the actual tweet. I wouldn’t mind having $2M I didn’t need to bid on this level of…

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