After trading in the digital rights to his selfies for more than $1 million on a platform for non-fungible tokens, an Indonesian college student has become an internet sensation.
Sultan Gustaf Al Ghozali, a computer science student at a university in Semarang, has been photographing himself in front of his computer nearly every day for the past five years.
He planned to make a timelapse video for his graduation day using the nearly 1,000 selfies he had collected.
The 22-year-old, however, decided to upload the photos to the NFT trading platform OpenSea under the title “Ghozali Everyday” after learning about blockchain technology.
Ghozali told reporters on Thursday at his university’s campus, “I was thinking it might be funny if one of the collectors collected my face.”
“I never expected anyone to want to buy the selfies, which is why I only charged $3 for them,” he explained.