5 Million Dollars At 15 (how i did it)

hey my name is Simon and I am ashamed to admit this but when I was nine I illegally bought credit card information of dozens of people on the internet and use those to order pizzas for me and my friends I know what I did was wrong but that's not what this story is about this story is about Bitcoin because the hackers that sold the credit card information on the internet wanted bitcoins in exchange so back in 2010 I decided to buy four hundred bitcoins which only cost me fifty dollars back then I spent 40 of those bitcoins to buy the credit card information of around 30 people which was more than I needed and afterward I completely forgot about the other 360 bitcoins I had left only in 2017 when I saw a newspaper article talking about Bitcoin and how its price had exploded I remembered I had a few bitcoins left they were still on my old laptop though and I wasn't sure if I had thrown it away so I ran into my basement to search for it and there I found it my old laptop I took him to my room and turned him on I was so nervous but then I immediately saw the Bitcoin wallet icon on my laptop screen I opened the application it read connecting to the internet and I was so nervous wondering if my old bitcoins were still inside the wallet but when it said 360 bitcoins left I got so euphoric that I screamed as loud as I could next I typed into Google 360 bitcoins converted to US dollar because I had no idea how much they were actually worth when it said five million US dollars I first had to take a deep and long breath but then I ran to my mom and screamed we are rich we are rich I was so excited I couldn't control myself and started dancing for no reason my mom thought I was joking and told me to calm down and to bring out the trash she didn't get it even though I told her we were worth five million dollars she just didn't believe me I also thought about telling my friends from school but I figured it was better if they didn't know I was rich two weeks later I had cashed out all my bitcoins I had to pay twenty percent taxes on them so I was left with only four million dollars which wasn't too bad a sixteen-year-old get the first thing I did was by my mom and nice apartment she had raised me as a single mother and always worked two jobs she had done so much for me and now I was finally able to pay her back but when I showed her her new apartment she asked me if I was making money selling drugs oh my god mom stop it just enjoy yourself why can't you just be happy after I had spent six hundred thousand dollars on the apartment I put three million dollars into a low index S&P 500 front which is one of the safest investments you can make and I also kept another 200,000 for me and another 200 K for my mom so we could spend it on whatever we wanted of course I bought myself a nice new car it was a luxury SUV and when I arrived at school everyone was impressed suddenly the kids that had made fun of me before kept their mouth shut so did money change me as a person yes absolutely I have much more self-confidence now even though I can't see I'm happier than before I mean I'm still the guy playing video games all day and hanging out with my old friends on the weekend to be honest I thought that once I'm rich girls would be all over me but that didn't happen at all there was one time where I went to a bar with one of my friends and I bought a huge golden champagne bottle for $800 but even then no girl wanted to talk to us it was a bit of a bummer to be honest the other thing is that I'm petrified about losing my money which is why I'm reading at least one book per week about investing I know it was pure luck that I became a millionaire at such a young age but I also know that if I spend my money on stupid things like a yellow Lamborghini that soon I'll be just as broke as I was before and trust me it takes a lot of self-control to stay rich for example last week I bought a thirty thousand dollar gold chain with diamonds on it it's so flashy that I can't even wear it outside because I'm scared someone will steal it from me that's why I only showed it to some of my friends they all said it looked cool but afterward I felt like an idiot because I realized I had just spent $30,000 on a diamond chain to impress other people what a waste of money anyway I think I talked enough about myself let me know when the comments what you would do if you suddenly had a few million dollars in your bank account thank you for listening and please subscribe to this channel if you want more animated stories

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Published: Sat Sep 07 2019