NFT收藏品Weird Whales 12歲創始人在本月底收入或超過40萬美元

NFT收藏品Weird Whales 12歲創始人在本月底收入或超過40萬美元

Weird Whales（怪異鯨魚）是12歲程序員Benyamin Ahmed於今年7月發布的第二個NFT收藏品，在不到一天的時間裡3350條像素鯨魚售罄，平均價格為0.025 ETH，截至發稿時80 ETH總價值大約24.8萬 美元 。Ahmed向CNBC表示，該NFT系列收藏品的成本是300 美元 （主要用於支付Gas費）。二級市場銷售傭金中還有30 ETH。Ahmed從每次二次銷售中賺取2.5%的特許權使用費，按目前價格計算這筆收入價值9.3萬 美元 。目前 Ahmed靠該項目賺了大概35萬 美元 ，預計到8月底，總收入將超過40萬 美元 。 據悉，Ahmed的第一個NFT收藏品項目Minecraft Yee Haa在今年夏天早些時候推出，由40個彩色像素化頭像組成，這些頭像是他在玩沙盒遊戲Minecraft（我的世界）很長時間後創作的。Minecraft Yee Haa NFT並沒有立即售罄。然而，隨著Benyamin Ahmed在NFT領域的名氣越來越大，這些NFT正成為搶手貨。（ Bitcoin ist）

Twelve-year-old boy makes £290,000 from whale NFTs

“My advice to other children that maybe want to get into this space is don’t force yourself to do coding, maybe because you get peer pressured - just as if you like cooking, do cooking, if you like dancing, do dances, just do it to the best of your ability,” he said.

This 12-year-old coder is set to earn over $400,000 after about 2 months selling NFTs

Benyamin Ahmed isn’t your average 12-year-old. When he’s not at school, he enjoys swimming, taekwondo — and learning how to code. At just 5 years old, Ahmed began programming after watching his father, Imran, work as a web developer. He started with HTML and CSS, and continued to advance his coding skills, later learning JavaScript and other programs. But lately, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, and the smart contracts, or collections of code, that power them, have caught Ahmed’s attention. “I first learned about NFTs earlier this year,” Ahmed, who is based in London, tells CNBC Make It. “I got fascinated with NFTs because you can easily transfer the ownership of an NFT by the blockchain.”

Benyamin Ahmed (L), age 12, with his brother, Yusuf Ahmed (R), age 13. Courtesy of Imran Ahmed

NFTs are unique digital assets, including jpegs and video clips, that are represented by code recorded on a blockchain, which is a decentralized digital ledger. Each NFT can be bought and sold, just like physical assets, but the blockchain allows for the ownership and validity of each to be tracked. Ahmed was excited by the technology and decided to create an NFT collection of his own. His first NFT collection, which he launched earlier this summer, consists of 40 colorful, pixelized avatars called Minecraft Yee Haa, that “I created after spending too many hours playing [video game] Minecraft,” Ahmed says. He created the artwork and coded each himself, he says. The collection didn’t immediately sell, but that was OK. Ahmed saw the project as more of a learning experience than a “money grab” and wanted to continue to create. In June, he began to code Weird Whales, his second NFT collection, which features 3,350 pixelated whales, each with distinct traits. The project fused together a sort of meme, using the image of a whale, with traits similar to that of the iconic pixelated CryptoPunks, one of the first NFT collections to exist.

One of Benyamin Ahmed’s Weird Whales, number 1523. Courtesy of Imran and Benyamin Ahmed