Twitter CEO Selling His 1st Tweet, Know All About It – Free PDF Download

What has happened?

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is selling the first-ever tweet on the platform, which was posted from Dorsey’s account in March 2006.

• Dorsey has now listed this first tweet as a unique digital signature on a website called “Valuables by cent” meant for selling tweets as a non-fungible token (NFT),
• An asset whose value is subject to value fluctuations.
• An NFT is a one-of-kind digital token and the person who buys it is the sole owner of it, which means the purchaser can resell or distribute it.

What does it mean to own a tweet?

• As per the website ‘Valuables by cent’, what a person pays for in order to “own a tweet” is a digital certificate of the tweet,
• Which is unique because it is signed and verified by the tweet’s creator.
• This certificate is issued once by the website and is signed using cryptography.
• People can make offers on any tweet that has been posted from a public Twitter account.

So the tweet will be removed from that twitter handle?

• The tweet itself will continue to live on Twitter.
• What you are purchasing is a digital certificate of the tweet, unique because it has been signed and verified by the creator.

But why anyone will pay for owning a tweet?

• “Owning any digital content can be a financial investment, hold sentimental value, and create a relationship between collector and creator.
• Like an autograph on a baseball card, the NFT itself is the creator’s autograph on the content, making it scarce, unique, and valuable,”
• The FAQs on the website said.
• Once an individual has purchased a tweet, they can resell the tweet on the website or display them in their online gallery.
• Buyers can also choose to keep the tweet in their private collection.

But how the website earns?

• According to Valuables by cent, 95% of the money for purchasing the tweet goes to the creator of the tweet and five% goes to the website.
• For secondary sells, 87.5% goes to the seller, 10% goes to the creator and 5% to the website.
• Further, the money is credited to the seller’s crypto wallet.
• As per media reports, on Friday, Dorsey’s tweet received offers as high as $88,000.

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1. They are subject to Cash reserve requirement
2. They are not entitled to borrow from the RBI for normal banking purposes

1. 1 only
2. 2 only
3. Both 1 & 2
4. None of the above

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