He took almost 1000 selfies for five years – now he’s a millionaire thanks to NFT

Almost every day for the past five years, an Indonesian college student, Sultan Gustaf Al Ghozali took selfies of himself sitting in front of his computer. He had intended to use the collection to create a timelapse video for his graduation day but discovered the blockchain technology and decided to sell them as an NFT collection.

That collection, called Ghozali Everyday is now worth more than one million dollars.

He has now become a talk of the internet town ever since he was crowned with the ‘millionaire’ title just for uploading expression-less selfies on the internet. That's how powerful the internet is Ghozali Everyday was launched on Jan 9 and was sold at US$3 per picture.

But then it rapidly reached 0.9 ETH (around US$3000 per picture). As of Jan 14, the collections’ trade volume on OpenSea stood at 314ETH, equivalent to more than than US$1 million.

On his Twitter account, Ghozali thanked those who bought his selfies.

“Today Today (I) sold more than 230+ (selfies) and until now I don't understand why you want to buy #NFT photos of me !!! But i thank you guys for 5 years of effort paid off," he tweeted.

Non-fungible tokens (NFT) is the latest cryptocurrency asset that is validated using blockchain technology.