Few things give as much joy as finding a ticket inside an old trouser. And something like that just happened to American rapper 50 Cent ... but multiplied by a million. Or rather, for 7 million. This artist has remembered in 2018 that four years ago he was paid with 700 bitcoins for making an album. At that time, the change was not bad. But today it is equivalent to 7 million euros.
The discovery has been made public in the account of Instagram of 50 Cent, in which he has declared that "Not bad for a kid from the South Side" (his place of birth, in a somewhat marginal neighborhood of New York), along with a lot of emoji with whom he has wanted to announce that he is immensely rich.
TMZ, the portal specializing in news from the heart and the world of entertainment, has revealed that the rapper announced in an online meeting in 2014 that he would accept payment in virtual coins for his then new album, entitled "Animal Ambition". He did so in response to a fan who asked and reasoned assuring that "I wanted to be the last".
The funny thing is that in 2014 Bitcoin was going through a bad time. Only one year before came to quote at 1,000 euros, but 12 months later its price fell to 500 euros. Today, a Bitcoin is changed to 10,000 euros, and a month ago reached its historic cap: 20,000 euros.
The 7 million euros he owns in Bitcoin are added to his already very great fortune - estimated at about 18 million euros - achieved based on successes like that of his first album 'Get Rich or Die Trying', published in 2003 , with which he sold 21 million copies worldwide.
But after this petardazo, 50 Cent has behaved a bit like his beloved Bitcoin, with ups and downs of the most turbulent. For example, in 2015 had to declare bankruptcy to try not to pay $ 5 million fine to his ex-girlfriend, because of a homemade sex tape starring both that the rapper marketed. Finally, 50 Cent reached an agreement and paid 2.5 million. Even so, the debts for his spectacular life train (he bought the mansion where Mike Tyson lived for 4 million and then reformed it with another 10 million) have always prevented him from having financial tranquility. Perhaps this unexpected rain of millions will make you sit down.