NFT Magic! Ghozali Cuan Billion From Selling Selfie Photo Collection On Opensea
JAKARTA – The name Ghozali suddenly went viral on Twitter recently. This is driven by his success in selling selfie photos in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the popular marketplace OpenSea. Ghozali uses the account name Ghozali Everyday on OpenSea.
The young man from Semarang uses the account name Ghozali Everyday which is inspired by Beeple's NFT entitled "Everydays – The First 5000 Days". Through his account statement on OpenSea, Ghozali wrote that he had "taken selfies since he was 18 to 22 years old" in the 2017-2021 period.
Reporting from TheBlockCrypto, Ghozali Everyday even broke into the top 40 of OpenSea's 24-hour trading volume ranking with a 72,000 percent increase in activity according to data from the NFT market.
The prices for Ghozali's selfies also vary. Ghozali_Ghozalu's selfie #95 alone sold 0.33 Ethereum (around IDR 15,755,365). Until now, the sale of NFT Ghozali_Ghozalu itself continues. Ghozali's selfie photo trading volume reached 284 Ethereum (equivalent to IDR 13.5 billion) at the time of writing.
Ghozali sold his NFT selfie photos as many as 933 items. These photos were taken over the past five years when Ghozali sat in front of the computer every day.
"This is really a photo of me in front of the computer day after day," wrote Ghozali in the OpenSea account description.
The popularity of Ghozali's NFT collection has skyrocketed in the global NFT community. On Wednesday, January 12, 2022, Ghozali announced that his collection had 331 items left out of a total of 933 items. Therefore, the 22-year-old man advised that his selfie photos should not be misused.
“You can do anything like flipping or whatever but please don't abuse my photo or my parents will be very disappointed in me. I believe in you guys so please take care of my photos,” said Ghozali.
For information, NFT stands for non-fungible token which means a token that cannot be replaced. In short, NFT is a collection of digital art that can be in the form of pictures, photos, paintings, songs, names, or music. Each NFT item is recorded in the blockchain, each transaction is visible to everyone.
NFTs are judged on their rarity and authenticity. The rarer the NFT work, the higher the price. Some of the most well-known NFTs are the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) which is a collection of images of monkeys, CryptoPunks, Meebits, Loot, and so on.
In addition, a number of famous figures such as Eminem and Snoop Dogg are rumored to have NFT collections. A number of other popular figures launched their own NFT, such as Lionel Messi, Paris Hilton, and in Indonesia, Syahrini, who some time ago succeeded in releasing NFT. Owners can sell NFT on the OpenSea, Rarible, Solsea and so on marketplaces.