A little over a year ago, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey out his first tweet ever for purchase as an NFT. It was procured by entrepreneur Sina Estavi, chief executive at Malaysian crypto project Bridge Oracle.
Estavi made the purchase with the idea of placing the NFT up for auction, with some of the profits going to charity.
Estimates were that this Tweet could go for upwards of $48 million, and at the very least $25 million. It did not.
Ahead of last Wednesday’s deadline, Estavi received offers ranging from $6 to nearly $277 for the NFT, and after the deadline passed, his best offer Thursday was for just $10,000.
Estavi even made an appeal to new Twitter majority owner Elon Musk to purchase the NFT, but it doesn’t appear that Musk made any sort of offer.
In the end, Estavi decided not to sell the NFT after all, saying per the HuffPost, “The deadline I set [is] over, but if I get a good offer, I might accept it, I might never sell it.”
He proceeded to double down, saying that nobody purchased the NFT because nobody DESERVED to purchased it! “My offer to sell was high and not everyone could afford it. It’s important to me who wants to buy it. I will not sell this NFT to anyone because I do not think everyone deserves this NFT,” he said.
The entrepreneur concluded, “This NFT is not just a tweet. This is the Mona Lisa of the digital world.”
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