Admit it. The NFT boom has taken you by surprise, but with the little you have heard about it, you can’t stop thinking about what property you could sell at a good price to get a few euros (or some other fraction of Bitcoin). What if you sold that viral tweet? This is your opportunity.
But what are NFTs?
Token stands for unexpendable (Non Expendable Token in English) define something physical, usually digital, that represents something completely unique, impossible to replicate or exchange. This might surprise you and you might not even understand how someone would pay for something that they couldn’t have in their hand, but it happens.
In fact, such a bubble has been generated around the NFTs , that there are sales that have reached astronomical figures, so this new way of collecting high standing has penetrated deeply among the tycoons and not so tycoons.
Who can sell an NFT? And buy it?
And that’s where interest in the concept comes into play. Anyone would be encouraged to get easy money to sell something that was digital, and that is perhaps the great controversy that is being generated around the idea. There are auctions that have reached figures by insulting a piece that represented a square of a color of the RGB profile, something that you could obviously do yourself on your computer with Paint. But have you done it? No, right? Well, someone has been ahead of you.
Big auction houses like Christie’s have jumped on the NFT bandwagon quickly, hosting spectacularly successful auctions for many digital assets. And when we say spectacular we are talking about millions of dollars, amounts that sound even more insulting when you discover the type of work for which they have paid. You already know that art does not understand
What if they are duplicated?
Obviously you are thinking that if they sell a JPG file for millions of dollars, this file could easily be duplicated to have as many copies as you want. Not so fast. The concept of the NFT includes the action of tokenizing the asset, so that we would certify the property with a digital certificate that would guarantee the origin of the file and its only (and original) version.
And yes, that file can be cloned thousands of times, but the original and genuine will be in the hands of its buyer forever.
What if I sell a tweet?
It is an option. In fact, it has happened. Tweets, being unique publications registered in a user account, are considered unrepeatable values that could be sold as NFT, and that is exactly what the creator of the platform, Jack Dorsey, decided to do, putting his first tweet up for sale on the website. Valuables platform. The creator of Twitter decided to put up for sale the first tweet he published with his profile on March 21, 2006 (it has already rained), and the offers did not stop appearing, until the user SinaEstavi arrived with his 2,915,835.47 dollars to get hold of the property. The money, by the way, went to a charity in Africa.
– jack (@jack) March 6, 2021
The interesting thing about all this is that the winner of the bid will not be able to have the tweet as such in possession (obvious considering that we are talking about an NFT), but it is that he cannot have it on his Twitter account or in another similar place. The tweet will continue to be posted on Jack Dorsey’s account, only it officially belongs to the new buyer. Yes, nobody understands this NFT thing, but with tweets it works like that.
Can I sell my tweets?
That’s right, like Jack, you too will be able to sell your tweets with 2 likes and a wrong retweet. It does not matter if it is a little viral or forgotten tweet, the problem will be to see who buys it, but you will have the intention. To do this you will only need two things: an account in MetaMask and another in Valuables.
With MetaMask what you will get is to have a digital wallet based on Ethereum with which to carry out the transaction when you manage to sell the tweet. It is not something you need at first, but you should have it when you want to run away with the money.
Create wallet in MetaMask
To get a MetaMask wallet is as easy as installing its official extension in your browser (compatible in Chrome, Firefox, Brief and Edge). Once you install it, you can create a profile to receive the wallet’s security phrase, which you will keep in a safe place (or you will never be able to extract the money). With the portfolio configured, you will already have part of the work done.
Create account in Valuables
The next step is to enter the store or auction house of the tweets. Basically that is what is done in Valuables, since you will only have to log in with your Twitter account to guarantee that you are the owner of the account. After doing that, Valuable will allow other users to see your tweets and be able to send you an offer, which you will have to assess if you accept or not.
Unlike other bookmakers, the offers do not have an expiration date, so your tweets can always be on sale until you accept the offer that convinces you.
If you want to promote that you are selling a specific tweet, the service will leave you a link to publish on social networks, so that you can announce that you are selling one of your publications to the highest bidder.
How do I get the money?
Once you receive the offer and are determined to take it, you must accept it from the offers panel of your Valuables account, and that will be when the money travels to your MetaMask wallet. That is how easy you will have managed to sell a tweet and get the most out of it, although the most difficult thing will possibly be to attract the attention of potential buyers. Nobody said getting rich was easy!
