Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ handwritten résumé in 1973 has been auctioned off multiple times over the past few years, selling for more than $200,000 in March of this year. However, this time, along with the actual version, a digital NFT (Non-Fungible Token) version was also exhibited, and the original was sold at $343,000, 12 times that of the NFT, and was said to have won a landslide.
It is said that this auction showdown was conducted with the purpose of asking the organizers to pay attention to changes in physical or digital. The physical version, written by Jobs, was exhibited on the auction app (Snoofa) and the digital version on the NFT marketplace (Rarible) to see which ones are more expensive.
NFT, which means non-fungible token, is a technology that makes it possible to own or transfer certain digital data as something of value with a blockchain. It is a structure that has a collectible value by proving that it is an original that cannot be reproduced even with digital data recorded on the block chain, such as purchaser information and unique value ownership history related to the target data. In March, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet on Twitter was turned into an NFT and auctioned off for $2.9 million.
Jobs’ handwritten résumé was created before joining the video game company Atari. Since it is a Jobs item that doesn’t like autographs, it is a rare item, and the university is written as the address, so it is a topic of discussion whenever it comes up at auction.
As a result of the auction, the NFT version was sold at 12 ETH, or $27,500, and the original version with a physical substance was priced 12 times higher. It is, of course, unknown what the demand for the physical and digital versions of the collection will be as a result of the auction. However, when it comes to Steve Jobs-related items, it seems that the physical version you own is much more popular. Related information can be found here.