Twitter’s Dorsey to donate $2.5 mn from sale of his 1st tweet in Bitcoins

Twitter CEO and billionaire Jack Dorsey who last week announced to sell his very first tweet of March 6, 2006, has said that he will donate the money in Bitcoins to charity.

The highest bid for the tweet, put up for auction as an NFT (non-fungible token) on a platform called Valuables, is currently $2.5 million and there auction will end on March 21.

“Ending this March 21st. Will immediately convert proceeds to #Bitcoin. And send to @GiveDirectly Africa Response,” Dorsey said in a tweet late on Tuesday.

NFT is a digital good on the Ethereum blockchain.

The very first tweet by Dorsey on March 6, 2006 read: “just setting up my twttr”.