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01-24-2018, 09:53 PM
50 Cent accidentally became a Bitcoin millionaire
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If you're looking for 50 Cent you can probably find him in the club, celebrating his new Bitcoin (http://mashable.com/category/bitcoin/) fortune worth over $7 million.
Yeah. Apparently years ago while you were all snoozing on the future cryptocurrency fad, rapper 50 Cent "took a chance" on Bitcoin and started accepting the digital coin as payment for his music.
He essentially forgot all about it, until the recent Bitcoin boom reminded him, and has since realized the move seriously paid off.
SEE ALSO: Stripe won't accept Bitcoin anymore (http://mashable.com/2018/01/23/bitcoin-stripe-payment-transactions-ending/)
The rapper's unexpected riches were first reported (http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/23/50-cent-made-millions-bitcoin-animal-ambition-album/) by TMZ on Tuesday, who noted 50 Cent first started accepting Bitcoin as payment after releasing his 2014 album, "Animal Ambition."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/24/50-cent-bitcoin-millionaire/)
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If you're looking for 50 Cent you can probably find him in the club, celebrating his new Bitcoin (http://mashable.com/category/bitcoin/) fortune worth over $7 million.
Yeah. Apparently years ago while you were all snoozing on the future cryptocurrency fad, rapper 50 Cent "took a chance" on Bitcoin and started accepting the digital coin as payment for his music.
He essentially forgot all about it, until the recent Bitcoin boom reminded him, and has since realized the move seriously paid off.
SEE ALSO: Stripe won't accept Bitcoin anymore (http://mashable.com/2018/01/23/bitcoin-stripe-payment-transactions-ending/)
The rapper's unexpected riches were first reported (http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/23/50-cent-made-millions-bitcoin-animal-ambition-album/) by TMZ on Tuesday, who noted 50 Cent first started accepting Bitcoin as payment after releasing his 2014 album, "Animal Ambition."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/24/50-cent-bitcoin-millionaire/)
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