50 Cent accidentally make $8 million with Bitcoin, also help DeepOnion promotion

[Peanland]

Why he needs Deep Onion and Bitcoins?? He's already a millionaire!

Anyway, interesting story.

[DAOfan]

That is a great story. 50 cent should change his name to 50 satoshi!

[Svelto]

Nice read, thanks for sharing. 50cent is well rewarded for his kindness in 2014, this is a happy news to hear about and a good news promotion for crypto.

[MadMac]

The Bitcoin price in 2014 was at around 600$, now it's about 20x that price. 50c in BTC invested in 2014 would be worth 10$ now, not 8 million.

[Quantumplation]

NOTE: This message was originally not posted by me, but instead by someone who compromised my account.  I have deleted the content.

[Bolt Brownie]

I guess he already was a millionaire but he made a good decision in selling his album for bitcoin, and actually keeping the coins. We had a lot of merchants that were accepting bitcoin as a form of payment, like valve, overstock, or even Microsoft for example, but I'm pretty sure they didn't kept the coins. If they kept just a small portion of it, their profit would be huge by now. It's also quite a shame seeing valve removing bitcoin as a payment method from their site, complaining about the high fees and volatility. Not that it's not true, but have they kept the coins, they would have nothing to complain in terms of profit at least.

[sourish]

Hahaha.. Bitcoin turned 50 cents to $8million riches, But retained a 50cents rap of deep onion fame!  He is lucky to have remembered his login info, else his wealth would be forever locked away like many others. What a 'rich and famous' story.

[Metarhorn]

Cool story and you never know when some coin gets mentioned like that, like DeepOnion.
Little by little and soon could be hitting the roof.

[MadMac]

But the story is complete rubbish, 50c BTC in 2014 are now worth 10$. Deeponion would not have changed that. Garbage story, but ok, give me all your money

[ItBeginInAfrica]

yes, a nice story even if something doesn't add up in terms of value...
It is nice for DeepOnion to appear in this Verge article somehow

[Bob-Bit]

But the story is complete rubbish, 50c BTC in 2014 are now worth 10$. Deeponion would not have changed that. Garbage story, but ok, give me all your money

Read the whole thing. The rapper "50 cent" accepted  BTC as payment for recording his album. He didn't didn't get paid .50 cents to record his album. He probably got paid $250,000 worth of BTC in 2014s exchange rate, and now it's worth a bundle. That's the big story. And now he's musing about his sucesses and buying himself some Deeponion.

[longlivecapitalism]

Wow, lucky! He would be even luckier if he invested in DeepOnion now. I believe it's the right time for an investment, due to the fact that many features are about to be introduced in the first quarter of 2018, like the android wallet which will be followed by the iOS wallet later. And let's not forget that VoteCentral is also coming soon. Such features are bound to make people excited about DeepOnion and I predict its price will rise in the following months.

[aci69]

What an amazing story!
Also my friend paid me 300$ in Deep Onion in December 2017.

I had to install the wallet because I didn't know nothing about this coin.
In the meanwhile it tripled, from 3$ to 9$ ish, with a spike of 18$.

Who knows, it could be the next Bitcoin in the field of crypto privacy coins?

[MrAAKK]

While bitcoin has made 50 cent few millions richer, I'm waiting for my turn to become a millionaire through DeepOnion.
Be like 50 cent, accept Deeponion as a payment and you'll become rich like he does :p
Jokes aside, Check the newly released wallet at deeponion website and many more features are upcoming such as DeepSend, VoteCentral and Mobile wallet in the next few months.

[stanstan]

Deep Onion guys made a real nice RAP song, maybe 50 cent would like to feature them

[Nebell]

In Julian Assagne's case:

"I'm gonna drive my Ferrari right here in this room.... wait I can't even do circles..."

[izanagi narukami]

No one able predict their future but they can pointing where you want to go.
At the first glance, I'm not interest bitcoin at all but for somehow,  I keep looking about bitcoin detail until it's been proven right now , profit 1000% in 3 years.

Who would expect that happen ? No one but I believe for something unexpected !

[Ebenezar64]

Those are the kind of "accidents" I want happening to me to. Well, I wonder if he still wants DeepOnion since it is no longer worth 50 cents, if not I guess I would take them off his hands. I think I have heard that the Android Wallet release is coming really soon and that they just released a new Desktop wallet that has the latest Tor upgrade (0.3.3 - please correct me if I am wrong).

Man, I still can't get over it: Accidentally making $8M because he forgot about it... Well there you go, HODL seems to be the way and I will try my luck with DeepOnion.

[SEELE^^01]

i lold really hard when i read this about 50cent.

cmon, how can you just forget about having bitcoins ? i guess, he partied to hard.

but the best thing is, that even deeponion got mentioned there and i guess, together with the new released wallet and the tor upgrade, plus the stabilization of the whole cryptomarket, onions will fly off.

[kingcoiner001]

From 50cent to 8 million not bad 50

In 2014, 50 Cent accepted payment in Bitcoin for his album Animal Ambition. He just discovered his accumulated Bitcoin stash which was worthing $400,000 back then is now worth $8 million. He declared on Instagram and Twitter : “Not bad for a kid from South Side, I’m so proud of me.” and later commented on his post: “Ima keep it real, I forgot I did that shit lol.” It's rather hillarious and reminds me somehow the (very different) story of Julian Assange which expressed gratitude to the US and UK for forcing him to accept bitcoin as a payment, making him a millionaire.

I find it even more pleasant to see that the story published on The Verge is mentioning that "50 Cent would like the coin DeepOnion because it used to be valued at fifty cents. " and surprised to see this story got rewritten in dozen of different languages accross the globe, every single one of them mentioning DeepOnion  

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Here is the original story :

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Thread from the DeepOnion forum listing the different languages version :

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Thank you 50 Cent and The Verge for your support !!

DeepOnion will not disappoint you, come and join the party