{"id":1042029,"date":"2026-10-09T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042029"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:08:25","slug":"how-12-year-old-erik-finman-turned-a-1000-bitcoin-btc-usd-investment-in-2011-into-1-09-million-by-age-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/how-12-year-old-erik-finman-turned-a-1000-bitcoin-btc-usd-investment-in-2011-into-1-09-million-by-age-18\/","title":{"rendered":"How 12-year-old Erik Finman turned a $1,000 Bitcoin (BTC USD) investment in 2011 into $1.09 million by age 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Finman was only 12 years old, when he invested a $1000 gift from his grandmother in Bitcoin in 2011. By the time he was 18 years he had 403 Bitcoins valued at $1.09 million based on a Bitcoin price of $2700. <\/p>\n<p>His Bitcoin investment also helped him win a bet he had made with his parents that if he turned 18 and was a millionaire, they would not force him to go to college. <\/p>\n<p>Finman said, \u201cI can proudly say I made it, and I\u2019m not going to college,\u201d as quoted by CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Finman was only 12 years old, when he invested a $1000 gift from his grandmother in Bitcoin in 2011. By the time he was 18 years he had 403 Bitcoins valued at $1.09 million based on a Bitcoin price of $2700. His Bitcoin investment also helped him win a bet he had made with his parents that if he turned 18 and was a millionaire, they would not force him to go to college. Finman said, \u201cI can proudly say I made it, and I\u2019m not going to college,\u201d as quoted by CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042056,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042029\/revisions\/1042056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}