The tweet has now been sold for $2.9 million (roughly Rs 210,027,280) as a Nonfungible token.
A Malaysia-based businessman bought Dorsey's tweet.Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which was posted in 2006, read "just setting up my Twitter", now belongs to Malaysia-based buyer Sina Estavi, who owns a blockchain company Bridge Oracle.
The CEO of Cent, Cameron Hejazi, confirmed that the tweet was bought using cryptocurrency Ether.
"These assets might go up in value, they might go down in value, but what will stay in the ledger and the history of 'I purchased this from you at this moment in time, and that's going to be in both the buyer, the seller, and the public spectators' memory," Reuters quoted Hejazi as saying.While everyone thought it is just a tweet and not worth millions, Estavi, who bought the tweet, likened it to the Mona Lisa painting.
He tweeted, "This is not just a tweet!
I think years later; people will realize the true value of this tweet, like the Mona Lisa painting.