The Non-Fungible Token of the edit, a unique digital object, was sold by Christie s for $750,000 while his Strawberry iMac fetched $187,500 at auction on Wednesday.
On December 3, 1992, then 22-year-old British programmer Neil Papworth sent the first ever Short Message Service (SMS) from a computer at Vodafone s Newbury, Berkshire base.
NFT, the abbreviation for `non-fungible token, is awarded Word of the Year 2021 by Collins Dictionary after experts saw a more than 11,000 percent rise in usage of the abbreviation in 2021.
“I bought my first Bitcoin in 2010, and 11 years later I’m still investing in Bitcoin and running a company that makes it easier for others to do so too. Crypto is still a nascent asset class [.]. It may take some time to hit $500,000, but the future is bright for BTC and crypto more broadly.”