Erik Finman made a bet with his parents that when he will be 18 years old he will be millionaires. The young man won the game and become a millionaire when he turned 18.
He achieved this performance by investing in Bitcoin. He started investing in digital currency in 2011 when a token cost 12 US dollars. Now he has 403 Bitcoins, and one worth 2,700 dollars, which means he has a wealth of 1.09 million dollars. Even after his parents let him leave high school (Finman was later homeschooled) to pursue his career in 2015 they told him he didn’t have to attend college if he made his first million by the time he turned eighteen. Through day trading Finman accumulated more bitcoins from the original 300 BTC sale and used some of the funds to create his own virtual reality headset company. In 2017 Finman became a millionaire at eighteen with his BTC holdings and his parents once again let him skip going to school.
Finman said:
“I can say today that I own 403 bitcoins which are currently valued at $1,092,678.08 with the price per Bitcoin being at $2,711.36 plus some other money invested in other things,”.