{"id":480693,"date":"2025-08-27T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/3-people-who-unexpectedly-became-crypto-millionaires-and-one-who-didnt\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:52:48","slug":"3-people-who-unexpectedly-became-crypto-millionaires-and-one-who-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/3-people-who-unexpectedly-became-crypto-millionaires-and-one-who-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"3 people who unexpectedly became crypto millionaires\u2026 and one who didn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.magazine.cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HI-MAGAZINE-Unexpected-Crypto-Millionaires-2-scaled.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/>\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Crypto has the potential to make ordinary people hilariously rich. Here\u2019s three real life tales, and one guy who sold free Bitcoin too early.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>A surprise manila folder with millions of Bitcoin, a memecoin that went to the moon and a series of high-stakes poker games  these are some true-life tales of people who struck it rich with crypto. <br \/><\/strong><br \/>While there are many stories of skilled traders, miners and gamers who became self-made crypto millionaires, the more interesting ones are those who stumbled into crypto and accidentally struck digital gold.<\/p>\n<p>It was 2013. Two freshman students were sitting at a bar. The guy, a nerdy computer type, was interning at Goldman Sachs. He told the girl  lets call her Anna  You should invest in Bitcoin. The girl, who had the resources, said, Sure.<\/p>\n<p>$10,000 was exchanged, and Anna forgot about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/3-people-who-unexpectedly-became-crypto-millionaires-and-one-who-didnt\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto has the potential to make ordinary people hilariously rich. Here\u2019s three real life tales, and one guy who sold free Bitcoin too early. A surprise manila folder with millions of Bitcoin, a memecoin that went to the moon and a series of high-stakes poker games these are some true-life tales of people who struck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":480694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}