Mandela’s Arrest-Warrant NFT Raises $130,000 in Auction

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Mandela’s Arrest-Warrant NFT Raises $130,000 in Auction | Bloomberg archive.ph/s9amy

20 sats \ 11 comments \ @KenyaCoin 27 Mar 2022 bitcoin

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15 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 27 Mar 2022

Who in the right mind would buy such useless thing?

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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @KenyaCoin OP 27 Mar 2022

Proceeds from the sale will go toward the Liliesleaf Museum Heritage Site, which received the original document in 2004 as a donation,

The buyer of the NFT will have exclusive access to the original document at Liliesleaf Museum.

Liliesleaf farm, then on the outskirts of Johannesburg, was used as the secret headquarters of the African National Congress from 1961 and was where Mandela and other party leaders hid from authorities.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @KenyaCoin OP 27 Mar 2022

An archive of the Bloomberg article was used for this post so that there would be no paywall, no subscription requirement, and no ads. The link to the Bloomberg article is:

Mandela’s Arrest-Warrant NFT Raises $130,000 in Auction https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-27/mandela-s-arrest-warrant-nft-raises-130-000-in-auction

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @KenyaCoin OP 27 Mar 2022

Following is an article from before the auction. If you right-click you can save yourself $130,000:

Suspended museum CEO Nicholas Wolpe said he bought the original in 2007 for R30 000. He said the museum retained the original in its archives and that it would remain there.

The original document was handwritten on paper and is vulnerable to natural deterioration, but as an NFT, it will be preserved in perpetuity.

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Non-fungible token of Nelson Mandela’s original arrest warrant up for auction in Cape Town https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/non-fungible-token-of-nelson-mandelas-original-arrest-warrant-up-for-auction-in-cape-town-d93da1ae-33e3-40c8-8884-db4e643cd2be

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @KenyaCoin OP 27 Mar 2022

NFTs are built using the same kind of programming as cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin