Damn, should I start selling some pixel art NFTs too? Benyamin Ahmed has managed to sell pixelated doodles to thousands of crypto enthusiasts. The 12-year-old is now sitting on nearly $400,000 in Ethereum cryptocurrency after his NFT collection sold out overnight! He has sold over 3,350 NFTs from his collection called ‘Weird Whales,’ as Futurism details:
But that ethereality hasn’t stopped buyers. CNBC reports that the Weird Whales all sold out in nine hours. Ahmed, who spent $300 on the entire project, raked up 80 ether on those initial sales. That’s worth about $250,000 as of this article’s publication. Since that initial sale in July, Ahmed has collected another 30 ether — about $94,000 — in royalties when some of his buyers decided to sell their whales to someone else.
By the end of the month, CNBC projects that he’ll have over $400,000 in Ethereum — and Ahmed says he doesn’t plan to cash out.
“I plan to keep all my ether and not convert it to fiat money,” Ahmed told CNBC. “It might be early proof that, in the future, maybe everyone doesn’t [need] a bank account and just has an ether address and a wallet.”
Image credit: Imran and Benyamin Ahmed via CNBC