{"id":16733,"date":"2017-12-18T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i2020i.com\/?p=16733"},"modified":"2017-12-18T11:35:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:35:47","slug":"this-high-school-dropout-who-invested-in-bitcoin-at-12-is-now-a-millionaire-at-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/?p=16733","title":{"rendered":"This high school dropout who invested in bitcoin at $12 is now a millionaire at 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.cnbc.com\/p\/gZWlPC\/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&#038;byGuid=3000629259&#038;size=530_298\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#131313\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/3000629259?__source=cnbcembedplayer\">This high-school dropout who invested in bitcoin at $12 is now a millionaire at 18<\/a> from <a href=\"\/\/www.cnbc.com\/?__source=cnbcembedplayer\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the world of cryptocurrencies to date, more than a few millionaires, have been made. In the case of 18-year-old Erik Finman, a $1,000 cash gift from his grandmother turned into over a million dollars after he invested it in Bitcoin back in 2011, at $12 a coin.<\/p>\n<p>His early investments in Bitcoin helped him win a bet with his parents &#8212; if he became a millionaire before 18, he could opt out of going to college.<\/p>\n<p>Among other accomplishments and ambitious plans, the young millionaire has stated that he plans to launch a satellite \u2018time capsule\u2019 with NASA to orbit the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This high-school dropout who invested in bitcoin at $12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3926],"tags":[9257],"class_list":["post-16733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stock-trading","tag-this-high-school-dropout-who-invested-in-bitcoin-at-12-is-now-a-millionaire-at-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16734,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions\/16734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i2020i.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}