AT 12, HE PUT $1,000 INTO BITCOIN AND WAS A MILLIONAIRE BY 18 🤯💰
You wouldn’t believe me if I told you that a 12-year-old became a millionaire with Bitcoin—and even won a bet with his parents thanks to it.
In 2011, Erik Finman received $1,000 from his grandmother and, on his brother’s advice, put it all into $BTC when it was worth around $12. By the time he was 18, he had 403 bitcoins, worth more than a million dollars, and his parents had to keep their promise: not to force him to go to college.
My take: the craziest part isn’t the luck—it’s that a 12-year-old trusted something almost nobody understood yet and held on for years without selling.
Would you have held on without selling, or spent it all by 15?
#Bitcoin
You wouldn’t believe me if I told you that a 12-year-old became a millionaire with Bitcoin—and even won a bet with his parents thanks to it.
In 2011, Erik Finman received $1,000 from his grandmother and, on his brother’s advice, put it all into $BTC when it was worth around $12. By the time he was 18, he had 403 bitcoins, worth more than a million dollars, and his parents had to keep their promise: not to force him to go to college.
My take: the craziest part isn’t the luck—it’s that a 12-year-old trusted something almost nobody understood yet and held on for years without selling.
Would you have held on without selling, or spent it all by 15?
#Bitcoin
