This week on The Cigar Authority, we tell The NFT Cigar Story! NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) became all the rage in pop culture & the cigar world a few years back. We’ll give you the history of how these digital cigars eventually came to life! We will smoke Bentley Green Edition Half Corona in the first hour! The Cigar Authority is a member of the United Podcast Network and is recorded live in front of a […]
Hudson, NH –Atabey Black Ritos by Nelson Alfonso of Selected Tobacco is now shipping the 2019 vintage to United Cigar Branded lounges and NFT Box holders. As the world’s first cigar NFT, the Atabey Black Ritos originally released in 2021 an NFT’s. Enthusiasts were able to purchase NFT boxes at a set price of $1,200 as Atabey Black Ritos NFT’s were released with a charitable intent and not as an auction item. The box NFT, […]
Atabey Black Ritos started off as the idea of Oliver Nivaud from United Cigar, later turned into a discussion with Nelson Alfonso, and pushed over the line by Nelson Alfonso, Jr., the very first NFT cigar was born. On April 1, 2021, what some believed to be an April Fools joke was real, or kind of. OpenSea, a digital NFT trading platform, still unknown to most of the cigar community, Atabey Black Ritos came […]
Atabey Black Ritos is coming to market in the latter half of 2023. After going through Selected Tobacco owner Nelson Alfonso’s five year aging process, the cigars are now ready to be enjoyed in United Cigar Lounges across the US. Launched as an NFT in 2021, Atabey Black Ritos was the first NFT cigar in the world, limited to 25 single cigar and 10 boxes as unique digital images. The Atabey Black Ritos NFT sales proceeds […]