12 year old makes Weired Whales $ 400,000 in 2 months
That weird whale NFT whale (3,318) alone is worth a few thousand dollars. (Screenshot: Open Sea / Weird Whales)
The twelve-year-old Brit Benyamin Ahmed got richer by around 400,000 US dollars in just two months – thanks to the self-created Whale NFT collection Weird Whales.
They have been around for a long time: non-fungible tokens (NFT). These are unique, non-exchangeable tokens that represent rare digital collectibles or works of art and ensure their uniqueness. But it is only in the past few months that NFT has become a real hype. The original NFT are the cryptopunks that have been created since 2017, thousands of pixel portraits, some of which are traded for six-figure sums. A young programmer from Great Britain is now benefiting from the run on NFT assets of all kinds.
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Benyamin Ahmed: First NFT attempt unsuccessful
The now twelve-year-old Briton Benyamin Ahmed claims to have started programming at the age of five – under the guidance of his father Imram, who works as a web developer for financial service providers. Then, earlier this year, Ahmed found out about NFT and was fascinated by the way he was CNBC Make It stated. So the young programmer decided to create his own crypto works of art. His first collection, Minecraft Yee Haa, for which Ahmed was inspired by Minecraft, was initially unsuccessful.
With his second NFT collection, Weird Whales, he finally achieved great success. The pictures are small whales in pixel optics. The template came from a stock image database. Ahmed programmed a total of 3,350 pixel whales as NFT. Cost: $ 300, most of which was spent on NFT creation fees. He was supported by a developer of the NFT collection Boring Bananas, who provided him with a kind of template for NFT development, such as Decrypt writes.
Tween makes hundreds of thousands with pixel whales
Not least thanks to the ongoing exchange with the team behind Boring Bananas, the Weird Whales went viral. Within a few hours, all of the NFTs in the collection were sold – and Ahmed was $ 160,000 richer. But that’s not all. On the one hand, the rise in the price of Ethereum (ETH) ensured that Ahmed’s assets held in ETH continued to grow. In addition, the programmer receives his digital works of art for each resale on the Opensea platform a share of 2.5 percent. Ahmed expects to own $ 400,000 worth of ETH by the end of August.
