Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet sold for $2.9 million as NFT

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has sold his first-ever tweet for $2.9 million dollars as an non-fungible token, or NFT, on Monday. Jack Dorsey’s first tweet posted on 22nd Mar, 2006 just setting up my twttr — jack (@jack) March 21, 2006   An NFT is a unique digital asset secured on a blockchain that has gained traction this year, in step with the rapidly rising popularity of cryptocurrencies. Each NFT has its own signature, which can be verified in the public ledger and cannot be duplicated. The NFT was sold via…

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Bitcoin jumps 14% after Elon Musk hints for accepting payment for cars soon

Bitcoin jumped as much as 14% on Friday to a two-week high after Tesla Inc chief Elon Musk tagged the cryptocurrency in his Twitter biography. Musk wrote simply “#bitcoin” in his biography on the social media site. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency was up 10.2% at $36,901 as of 1005 GMT. The billionaire entrepreneur, followed by 43.8 million users on Twitter, has a record of making market-moving comments on the site. The announcement came after two weeks in which comments from CEO Elon Musk encouraged small-time investors to buy bitcoin and…

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