Vodafone’s test message, which was sent on 3 December 1992 and was the first SMS, was sold as NFT and found a buyer. SMS was sold for 107 thousand euros.
From the early ’90s to the mid-2000s, when messaging apps weren’t around yet, we all We depended on SMS. Nowadays, we started to use SMS only when we don’t have internet anymore. When we have the Internet, we only use SMS for things like hearing campaigns from places we are customers.
The start of the SMS trend all over the world was made by Vodafone. That SMS sent for testing purposes in 1992, the other day Sold as NFT by Vodafone. The SMS, which went up for auction, finally found a buyer. The first SMS at the auction held at the auction house Aguttes in France, Sold for 107 thousand euros.
The world’s first SMS sold at auction:
SMS, which was sold as NFT, was paid with the cryptocurrency Ethereum, just like all other NFTs. The identity of the person who owned the SMS as NFT was not disclosed. The text message sent in the NFT sold a detailed copy of the original communication protocol was also declared. The person who buys the SMS, on the other hand, will not only have digital ownership of it, but also the framed physical presence of the SMS for legal reasons.
In this first SMS sent on December 3, 1992, “Merry Christmas” was included. The revenue from the SMS, which was sent exactly 29 years ago, will be donated to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). SMS was expected to be sold for 100 – 200 thousand euros and the expectation came true.
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