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I Spent 100 Days Buying NFTs

Where I went from nearly broke to newly minted NFT millionaire

Alex Bentley
Money vs. Machine
Published in
5 min readMar 21, 2022

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Here’s the story of how I got into buying NFTs.

You know, static JPEG images people sell as art. The same images that anyone with half a brain knows how to right-click and save.

It all started when I was browsing the Internet for something to invest in. Crypto, altcoins and DeFi were the popular buzzwords. Reading about them made me want to get into blockchain projects, but I wasn’t sure how.

Then one afternoon, my buddy and I sat around in our boxers smoking weed in the living room of my parent’s mansion.

And through those THC-riddled clouds of smoke, my buddy awakened me to a whole other world.

“Bro, get into NFTs,” he said. Exhaling smoke.

“What the fuck are NFTs?” I asked.

He took another hit and then started in.

“Non-fungible tokens, man.”

Perplexed, I asked, “What kind of token?”

“Non-fungible. One of a kind. And you can make some serious cheddar investing in them.”

Whenever someone mentioned money, my ears perked up and honed into what they were saying. It’s almost like I…

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Alex Bentley
Money vs. Machine

I write about crypto, personal finance, business & tech. Also, I publish a bit of humor to make you laugh.