{"id":11681,"date":"2022-08-05T14:51:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/05\/mark-zuckerbergs-custom-little-league-baseball-card-is-getting-turned-into-an-nft\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T14:51:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:51:30","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-custom-little-league-baseball-card-is-getting-turned-into-an-nft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/05\/mark-zuckerbergs-custom-little-league-baseball-card-is-getting-turned-into-an-nft\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s custom Little League baseball card is getting turned into an NFT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/4\/23292066\/instagram-nft-mark-zuckerberg-baseball-card-metaverse<\/a>
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Other than \u201cturning up the heat a little bit<\/a>\u201d on Meta employees who shouldn\u2019t be there and hitting the metaverse runway<\/a>, Mark Zuckerberg is highlighting Instagram\u2019s expanded NFT support. The founder and CEO took the opportunity of announcing expanded NFT support on Instagram to tell everyone<\/a> his custom-made 1992 Little League baseball card is going on sale soon, with an NFT included as part of the deal.<\/p>\n

I thought he was minting it himself, but as the Metropolis Comic Collect profile linked in his post explains<\/a>, that is not the case. This card is one Zuckerberg custom-made for a camp counselor who kept it, and now it has been authenticated and put up for sale as an actual collectible, in addition to the digital blockchain receipt. If you check it out in his post, now you\u2019ll know that at age eight, Zuckerberg had this card made saying he hit for .920 \u2014 there are some pitchers from that league who probably suspected the video metrics<\/a> were off before anyone else did \u2014 as a right-handed infielder in Dobbs Ferry, New York. <\/p>\n

This comes at an interesting time for Meta. Its main cash cow, Facebook, just reported<\/a> its first-ever decline in revenue for the second quarter. Instagram is already in a state of confusion, rolling back tests of TikTok-like features since, as CEO Adam Mosseri told Casey Newton, \u201cpeople are frustrated and the usage data isn\u2019t great.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n

So Meta is diving in, albeit late, to a niche market of \u201cdigital collectibles\u201d that has collapsed sharply since peaking in the winter. A tracker on Dune<\/a> displays data from OpenSea showing that, after dropping from where it was in May, sales volume has remained fairly flat in the months since.<\/p>\n

In a separate report <\/a>for Platformer<\/em><\/a>, Newton noted that Meta, Twitter<\/a>, and Reddit<\/a> are all pushing forward NFT projects but don\u2019t have any data to share on how they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n