A 12-year-old boy managed to hit a virtual gold mine with his Weird Whales collection, which as NFTs yielded more than $30,000.
Benyamin Ahmed is an apparently normal 12-year-old boy from Great Britain. During the school holidays, on the other hand, he managed to earn as much as an average Dutchman in almost a decade. With the creation of 3,350 Weird Whales and the sale as NFTs, Ahmed earned more than $330,000 in Ethereum, reports the BBC. Would he now give pocket money to his parents instead of the other way around?
Weird Whales
Ahmed learned to code at a young age and recently wanted to get a piece of the NFT world. Non-Fungible Tokens are digital signatures that can be linked to a digital object. In this way, an artist can label a digital work of art as ‘real’, although infinitely many copies can be made of it.
The Weird Whales of the young man apparently liked it. Fans bought the pixelated whale pictures together for over $330,000 worth of Ethereum. Funny enough, Ahmed has a huge cryptocurrency wallet, while he doesn’t even have a real bank account. Depending on how the crypto world develops, it could become many times richer than that.
The Whales seem a bit inspired by the CryptoPunks that recently sold for millions. Ahmed created a script that automatically generated all 3350 figures. Each of the thousands of whales is completely unique.
Ahmed previously made a collection of Minecraft-inspired NFTs, but it was not a success. The boy is currently working on his third collection. Here the theme of superheroes will be in the foreground.
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