The first SMS in history, sent by Britain's Vodafone on 3 December 1992, will be sold on Tuesday at auction in the form of NFT, that irredeemable digital token that has disrupted the art market - and beyond - worldwide.
The SMS received at the time by Richard Jervis, a Vodafone partner, consisted of 15 characters that make up a wish: Merry Christmas. It will be sold at auction by Aguttes in France. The buyer will be able to pay with cryptocurrency and will become the exclusive owner of a digital and unique copy of the original communication protocol used to transmit the world's first SMS.
Vodafone announced that the proceeds will go to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
NFTs, unknown until a year ago, are based on blockchain technology, are unique and cannot be exchanged for other equivalents, hence the name non-fungible.
For some, they are the golden eggs of the contemporary art market and within a few months they have conquered the auction houses, where they are selling for exorbitant prices; the record so far is held by a digital work by American artist Beeple, which sold for $69.3 million last March.
Source: CNA
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