Meet the 12 Year Old Coder Whose NFTs Made Him Over $5 Million
Benjamin Ahmed is a 12-year-old coder who does not yet have a bank account, but has earned over $990,000 in Ethereum by working on various crypto-projects and selling his own NFT collection to Strange Whale. Furthermore, the total sales of his NFT collection have exceeded $5 million, and he receives royalties every time his NFTs are traded on the blockchain.
Although, Ahmed has no plans to cash in on his earnings as of now. Instead, he sees the most value in the community he has found.
From writing code to lecturing at Oxford
This school going NFT maker had an interest in technology from an early age. He learned to code at the age of only five and later started exploring NFTs and other virtual assets. In 2021, they released 3,350 pixelated whale artifacts as an NFT on OpenSea under the username Benoni. The strange whale collection sold out within hours and earned $145,000.
In the same year he also joined hands with The Boring Banana Company and provided technical support to create 8,888 NFTs called Non-Fungible Heroes (NFH). These characters were created by former employees of companies such as NFT Disney and Nickelodeon, and may, in the future, appear in NFH video games, movies, and other media as well.
in an interview with CNBC, “We’re building something that we think has the potential to disrupt the entire media and entertainment industry,” Ahmed said, adding that NFH “could be the first NFT project to make it into a theater near you.” could.”
In December 2021, CrptOx, a crypto society at the University of Oxford that aims to foster the interest of blockchain industry professionals, was invited Ahmed will deliver a lecture on NFTs at Pembroke College. twelve years old Ahmed is to date the youngest person to lecture at Pembroke.
What do NFTs mean for Benjamin other than digital assets?
Asked if his friends knew about his interest in NFTs Ahmed told Metro.co.uk, “My friends at school know what I do, and they have congratulated me. Although I don’t think everyone really understands it. But now many people know my story and I am glad to see that many people are learning about NFTs because of me.”
Ahmed also believes that instead of spending his big bucks from NFTs, he would like to gain skills and experience by spending more time doing projects. He claims that although he has received impressive monetary benefits working in the NFT sector, the most valuable part is not the money but the support he receives from communities such as the NFH.
“This is critical to all successful NFT projects, with crypto often viewed as an exclusive club for coders and traders. However, this creative and highly educational aspect of the communities is being completely overlooked.” ahmed so CNBC.
He believes that NFT technology will be successful because it is easily accessible and provides equal opportunities to all. according to this Ahmed, “With digital art, it has a lot of usefulness and certification – I can just hop online and see where anything came from. Here, anyone can connect to the network – you can be a refugee Or there could be a rich person sitting in his mansion and it doesn’t matter. Everyone has the same rights and permissions that anyone else has.”
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