Who would have imagined that a meme would become a NFT thousands of dollars? Well yes, Zoë Roth's photograph, which became a meme, is now a valuable non-fungible token.
In case you don't remember, The original image is from 2005 and became the meme called Disaster Girl. By that date, Zoë Roth was a girl of just 4 years old.
It all happened when they were watching television and heard some sirens. They were the firefighters who had started a controlled fire in a house in Mebane, North Carolina. While onlookers watched, Zoë's father, an amateur photographer, took the picture, asking her to smile.
Subsequently, won a photography award in 2008. That's why it went viral once it was uploaded to the internet.
Now 21, Zoë Roth took advantage of selling the image as an NFT through Ben Lashes, one of the entrepreneurs behind these non-fungible tokens for 180 Ethereum. Which is equivalent to the modest sum of $473,000.
She plans to use this money to pay off her student loans and donate part of it to charities, she told The New York Times.
Star Wars will launch its NFT collection
Others who were encouraged by the NFT digital images are those of StarColl, which they announced on Star Wars Day, On May 4th, the launch of 800 NFTs took place.
These NFTs will be based on the famous saga of films and series. The images that will be sold will be digital representations of pieces from one of the largest private Star Wars collections.
Thus, among the images you will find Han Solo's ship, his blaster, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and a Darth Vader helmet, the latter valued at $20,000.
NFTs are just getting started, will they last? Will different non-fungible tokens emerge, like with cryptocurrencies? What do you think?
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