A 12 year old boy made £290,000 by selling Whale Emojis
NFT's or Non-fungible Token, You might have been hearing about it everywhere and seeing how people made a fortune buying and selling it. Recently a man known as Beeple sold his art work "Everydays: The First 5000 Days" for $69,000,000 as an NFT.
Today i want you to know about the story of a 12 year old boy from London who have made £290,000 by selling digital whale emojis as an nft during his summer holidays. He created a series of pixelated artwork called Weird Whales and sold them.
Before this Benyamin Ahmed have also created another series of pixelated avatar “Minecraft Yee Haa” based on the open world game Minecraft, But unfortunately those did not go for a high price and later created Weird Whales.
“My advice to other children that maybe want to get into this space is don’t force yourself to do coding, maybe because you get peer pressured - just as if you like cooking, do cooking, if you like dancing, do dances, just do it to the best of your ability," he said.
His parents are also very proud. His father Imran is a software developer who inspired his children in a young age to learn how to code.
