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 […]
La Flor Dominicana recently sold 7 NFTs. These allows you to purchase the Golden Bull. These sold for a lot of money – about $90,000. Most were purchased by retailers. Is there any way they can recoup their initial investment. The Cigar Authority is a member of the United Podcast Network and is recorded live in front of a studio audience at Studio 21 Podcast Cafe upstairs at Two Guys Smoke Shop in Salem, NH […]
The first NFT cigar is out there now. What is the follow up? Will there be an interesting collaboration in the future? The Cigar Authority is a member of the United Podcast Network and is recorded live in front of a studio audience at Studio 21 Podcast Cafe upstairs at Two Guys Smoke Shop in Salem, NH and as always you can find many of the cigars we discuss at https://www.2GuysCigars.com/.
United Cigars Director of Operations, Oliver Nivaud, has launched the first NFT (Non-Fungible Token) cigar. NFT is a unit of data on a digital ledger called a blockchain, where each NFT can represent a unique digital item, and thus they are not interchangeable. NFTs can represent digital files such as art, and other forms of creative work. Nivaud has spearheaded the formation of Concept Cigars, a new venture that will be used to create concept […]