A 22-year-old's story of making $1 million by selling NFT selfies

A 22-year-old Indonesian college student became a millionaire by selling his selfies as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the OpenSea NFT marketplace.

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For the uninitiated, NFTs are digital collectibles such as art, music, gif, etc, which work on Blockchain technology that cannot be duplicated.

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The 22-year-old took selfies either sitting or standing in front of his computer, which he later transformed into NFTs and uploaded to the OpenSea marketplace.

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The 22-year old-student set the price for each NFT selfie at $3 in the beginning. However, Some of the selfie NFTs were sold for ETH 0.9, amounting to around $3,000.

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