{"id":55074,"date":"2021-12-22T15:36:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55074"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:34:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:34:45","slug":"the-first-sms-in-history-sold-as-an-nft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/the-first-sms-in-history-sold-as-an-nft\/","title":{"rendered":"The first SMS in history sold as an NFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Aguttes auction house in France, the world&#8217;s first non-fungible token (NFT) was sold for \u20ac132,680.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\\\">\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\\\">\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-width=\\\"500\\\" data-dnt=\\\"true\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"fr\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">\ud83c\udf84<a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MerryChristmas?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#MerryChristmas<\/a> <br \/>Yesterday, we sold for 132,680 \u20ac the world&#8217;s first <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SMS?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#SMS<\/a> in NFT form, received on 3 December 1992 via the network <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VodafoneGroup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@VodafoneGroup<\/a>! The text read: \\&#8221;Merry Christmas\\&#8221;.<a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1stSMS?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#1stSMS<\/a> <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAguttes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@CAguttes<\/a> <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/RgY1w73guI\\\">pic.twitter.com\/RgY1w73guI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aguttes \u2014 Maison de ventes aux ench\u00e8res (@Aguttes_) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aguttes_\/status\/1473598589054164992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The message bearing the text \\&#8221;Merry Christmas\\&#8221; was first sent by programmer Neil Papworth to Vodafone&#8217;s managing director Richard Jarvis on 3 December 1992.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The buyer&#8217;s identity was not disclosed. Proceeds from the NFT sale are to be donated to the UN refugee agency.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>An unknown buyer <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-bidder-buys-nft-of-wikipedias-first-version-for-750000\">purchased the NFT of the first version of \\&#8221;Wikipedia\\&#8221;<\/a> for $750,000.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Aguttes auction house in France, the world&#8217;s first non-fungible token (NFT) was sold for \u20ac132,680.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,1213],"class_list":["post-55074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55076,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55074\/revisions\/55076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}