Bradley from Cointelegraph asks crypto conference attendees how they got rich. Answers range from selling a 28-year cyber-security company to early Bitcoin investments since 2013, trading futures, and launching crypto projects. Luck and timing come up repeatedly.
April 26, 2024
Hey, guys, the sun is just setting on token 2049. The first day. Now, I've seen some incredible watches around here today that make my Omega Seamaster 1948 look like a kid's toy. So we're gonna go around and we're gonna have a see what made them rich. Let's go. Hi, sir. So I'm with Cointelegraph. YouTube. We're just wondering, because of your beautiful watch, what made you rich? I sold a cyber security company that I worked on 28 years. I wanted to ask you. What. So rich. Investing in traditional finance markets. Which ones? Stock markets. Option selling. Yeah. And your sell side? Investing in crypto. Meme. Coins only. There we go. The yin and the yang. Let's go. The yin and the yang. Completely different. What made you so rich? Well, unfortunately, it was good. I actually worked in a hedge fund quite early and managed to become pretty successful within a short period of time. So I took a lot of hard work. Hedge fund money. How do you get so rich? By crypto? Which crypto? There's a good AI project called ENC. AI? It's like ChatGPT, but it is uncensored and decentralized. So rich. Yeah. I've been running this project for a few years and things have been quite. Myself at some point. You know. How many bitcoin you have? Well, I trade futures. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And you sell stuff. I would say being lucky, Being lucky, being in the right place with the right time with the right people. Good stuff. Luck and futures contracts. Let's go. What made you so rich? What made me so rich? By buying Bitcoin in 2014. Yeah. Yeah. You still got it. Yeah, still got it. Still got it. Diamond hands. Okay, so my story. In 2020, stock market crashes, I got a lot of money from a lawsuit right at that time, I put the majority in Tesla. It does Great. I take my profits into crypto, so that's why there's a circuit board inside of it, and it's kind of this trophy, you know what I mean? I joined crypto in 2013. Yeah. So it is 11 years now and you've still got bitcoin or you sold. Of course. Yeah, I have bitcoin ring, so I. Bitcoins. Look at that. Look at that. Hi, guys. Sorry to interject. Bradley from Cointelegraph. We noticed you have an incredible seamaster and we were wondering what made you so rich. Oh, I actually got it by selling some litecoin. Yeah. Yeah. But when it was 15. Yeah. Hi, guys, it's Bradley from Cointelegraph. Just wondering. That is an amazing watch. I'm just wondering what made you so rich. Bitcoin 6k, like in 2018, I went like hard on it. Amazing. We just wanted say you have an amazing datejust41 and we wanted to ask you how did you get so rich? I invested in this dog project back in the day. No, just joking. And what are you rocking today? Well, you know, I don't have a very expensive watch, so I'm still trying to. That's good enough. That's good enough. What made you enough money to buy that? My startup in building infrastructure for developers to have all the tools in one place to build. AI Dapps. Amazing. Thanks guys. Thanks a lot. In crypto since 2018. Yeah. So a Rolex is not that expensive. Where's he gone? A Rolex is not that expensive. What can we say after today? Well, most of the people that have nice watches either have 100 bitcoin in their wallet or they've sold some company. So maybe a nice watch does mean lots of money. But how they get that money? Well, that varies. People have said it's via happiness, maybe social reasons. Or it could be as simple as buying crypto so in the past and then coming back to the future and selling it. So those are the conclusions. I'm Bradley, this is Cointelegraph. Thanks for joining us today. See you later.
