If you were hesitant about all this Bitcoin business, let 50 Cent's success story convince you otherwise. The "Candy Shop"Â rapper hilariously and forgetfully made $8 million in Bitcoin without even dropping a verse.
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It was a great day for 50 Cent as he woke up and realized the ghost of Bitcoin's past has come back not to haunt him, but to shower him with an unexpected and overwhelming amount of money.
In 2014, he released his album Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win featuring collaborations with artists like Trey Songz and Yo Gotti. It didn't necessarily top the charts; in fact, The Guardian critiqued it saying "unchanged are his limitations as a rapper, both technically and in his choice of subjects."
This was clearly not his most successful album and he has not created one since. 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' attitude did not get him very far because a year after his album released, he filed for bankruptcy.
This came just three days after he was ordered to pay $5 million to Lastonia Leviston who was suing him for releasing her sex tape online.
50 Cent has taken some L's in the past few years, but little did he know that his forgotten Bitcoin blessing would multiply significantly. Fiddy accepted 700 Bitcoins in 2014 for his Animal Ambition album and didn't touch that money for four years. In 2014, 700 Bitcoin would have been worth somewhere around $400,000.
this man has 9 lives https://t.co/XU5fGkBbOt— worldstar occupied government (@worldstar occupied government)1516769375.0
Wow, if I had invested $1,000 in Bitcoin last week, today I would have... still no idea how Bitcoin works.— Stephen Colbert (@Stephen Colbert)1512794820.0