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“Merry Christmas” - Vodafone is auctioning the world's first SMS as NFT

 


The telecommunications provider is auctioning the very first SMS for a charity as an NFT.


The large British telecommunications group Vodafone wants to certify the world's first SMS as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) and put it up for auction on December 21. The timing could hardly be better, because the world's first SMS was sent 29 years ago on December 3, 1992 and contained the message “Merry Christmas”.


According to the Romanian news agency Ziarul Financiar, the Christmas short message will be auctioned via the French auction house Aguttes as NFT.


The proceeds from the auction will in turn go to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations refugee agency.


The advertising text for the auction (see above) sums it up briefly: “Merry Christmas. The world's first SMS will be auctioned for charity as an NFT. "


The betting will take place on December 21st via online auction, whereby interested parties can also submit their bids for the Vodafone SMS NFT via Ethereum ( ETH ). The highest bidder receives exclusive ownership rights to the specific software protocol that was used for the transmission of the very first SMS.


At that time, Vodafone was a big step ahead of the competition, because it was only nine years later that other telecommunications providers could also send and receive SMS. With the securitization of the first SMS as a non-fungible token, Vodafone is now again breaking new ground.


At the same time, the auction again shows how versatile NFTs can be. The new technology offers a multitude of possible applications that some companies and corporations are now bravely trying out. For example, the German sporting goods manufacturer Adidas recently ventured “into the Metaverse” with its own NFT collection.


As Cointelegraph had reported, the sale of the Adidas Original NFTs started yesterday, December 17th at a price of 0.2 ETH or just under 810 US dollars.



Just a few days earlier, competitor Nike had bought the NFT brand RTFKT in order to go into the Metaverse itself.

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