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The artist behind 'Bitcoin Angel' was struggling to pay his mortgage 5 years ago then reportedly made $4 million in a day selling NFTs
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Trevor Jones
Just five years ago, Trevor Jones could barely pay his mortgage.
Then in 2019, he started making non-fungible tokens, aka NFTs, and he hit the jackpot, according to a Nov. 6 story from The Guardian. His well-known piece «Bitcoin Angel,» for example, sold for the cryptocurrency equivalent of $3 million.
«I went from having to borrow money from friends to pay the bills to making $4 million in a day,» he told the news outlet.
Before being flung into crypto fame, Jones told the Guardian he grew up in a rough logging community in western Canada before moving to Edinburgh where he worked at the Hard Rock Cafe as a waiter. In his early 30s, he and his girlfriend split up, and he went through a crisis that landed him in art school, the
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