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We all love that feeling of finding a bank note down the back of the couch, yet famous rapper 50 Cent stumbled across a Bitcoin fortune worth millions of dollars after rediscovering crypto coins that he'd 'lost' a few years prior.
The world of cryptocurrency is like an extreme version of stocks as prices are constantly in flux, but it can lead some lucky investors to become millionaires overnight after a hefty spike.
Often you'll see stories of long-term crypto gains though in the trusty few who have held strong over the years, as the world's first Bitcoin billionaires resisted the temptation to sell for over a decade as the coin bloomed in value.
Sometimes the best thing you can do when it comes to crypto is to simply forget about it, as while we've seen some celebrities benefit significantly from forgotten stock over the years, one man in particular turned $455,000 into several million without even realizing it.
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As reported by GQ, rapper 50 Cent made the then-bizarre decision to receive a payment of Bitcoin when selling his 2014 album 'Animal Ambition'. In total he earned 700 Bitcoin as part of the campaign, which at the time worked out to around $455,000.
For a man whose net worth was over $140 million at the time it's understandable that just over $455,000 wouldn't register any significant importance to him - especially as it was trapped in a bizarre new digital currency - but that might have been the best financial decision he has ever made.
Forgetting about it for four years, it was only in 2018 that 50 Cent finally remembered about the Bitcoin he'd earned from Animal Ambition after the cryptocurrency began to really take off and make national news.
At the time Bitcoin was worth around $10,000 per coin, making his overall holdings skyrocket from the meagre $455,000 to a jaw-dropping $7,000,000 total value.
Hopefully 50 Cent was smart enough to realize the potential of Bitcoin and continue to hold though, as the cryptocurrency has continued to climb in value and now sits at over $100,000 per coin - 10 times that of its 2018 value and nearly 1,600 times more expensive compared to when people handed the coin over in 2014.
At the time of writing, the exact value of Bitcoin is $109,078.99, so this across 700 coins would total an overall fortune of $76,355,293 - which would be nearly double his current net worth of $40 million according to AFROTECH.
It'll also be depressing to look back for anyone who handed over Bitcoin in exchange for 50 Cent's album, as it would have taken roughly 0.16 Bitcoin to purchase it (based on a single Bitcoin price of $62.8 and an album price of $10), which roughly works out to $17,452.64 today.
That could buy you 1745 copies of Animal Ambition, or work out as enough money to buy the album roughly every two and a half days since its June 3, 2014 release date.
