Top 3 Crazy Crypto Stories
The last couple of years have been really crazy for the crypto industry. Rapidly changing trends, volatility, the discovery of crypto millionaires, many outstanding projects — this is what fills this ambiguous world.
Today we will share some of the most extraordinary stories from the crypto community.
Looking for 7500 Bitcoins
During spring cleaning in 2013, a man threw an old hard drive into a dumpster, which quickly ended up in a local landfill in Newport, Wales, UK. He did not know then that there was a wallet with 7,500 bitcoins on that hard drive. At the moment, it is more than 323 million dollars.
As soon as Howells realized his fatal mistake, he began a desperate search for a hard drive in the city dump. For the past eight years, a man has been rummaging through piles of garbage in the hope of finding the coveted HDD.
Howells announced a reward of £1 million to anyone who helps him find the hard drive and intends to donate a quarter of the amount that can be earned from the sale of cryptocurrency to the fight against coronavirus. He has already agreed with NASA specialists to help him recover the information on the disk. If the hard drive is found, the chance of data recovery using NASA equipment is relatively high — up to 90%.
Tricky Key
While some lose their bitcoins, others find them and become millionaires. This happened to a Reddit user named BitcoinHolderThankU (BHTU). In January 2021, he managed to regain access to his wallet, where he kept 127 bitcoins and immediately sold them at a rate of $34,000, instantly becoming $4.2 million richer.
He earned these millions back in 2011 by performing various tasks on the Internet, including multiple captchas (a test for a robot). In his post on Reddit, he wrote that he could have become even more prosperous if he had waited at least a week with the sale when the bitcoin exchange rate crossed the $40,000 mark.
New Generation Takes the Stage
Schoolboy Benyamin Ahmed, who lives in London, earned about $400,000 selling NFTs. A teenager was selling whale emojis he drew.
For a series called “Strange Whales” the boy was paid in the Ethereum cryptocurrency. Ahmed had previously sold NFTs of his drawings, but the first collection based on the computer game Minecraft sold much worse.
According to Ahmed, he has been programming since the age of five. To create 3,350 whale emojis, he used a program he developed himself. The young genius intends to develop an “underwater game” involving whales. The teenager is also working on the third series of drawings — it will be dedicated to superheroes.
Easy Does It
Some people rely on luck, but the key to investing is a responsibility and a cool head. It became possible to delegate rebalancing crypto portfolio trading through artificial intelligence technology. An example of such a product is Stoic, which currently manages $115 million in deposits on users’ accounts. The obvious advantage is that this tool is suitable for both beginners and experienced crypto users.
