{"id":80401,"date":"2018-07-05T21:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/teen-makes-100000-through-bitcoin-crowdfunds-vr-headset"},"modified":"2018-07-05T21:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T04:22:27","slug":"teen-makes-100000-through-bitcoin-crowdfunds-vr-headset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/teen-makes-100000-through-bitcoin-crowdfunds-vr-headset","title":{"rendered":"Teen Makes $100,000 Through Bitcoin, Crowdfunds VR Headset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teen-makes-100000-through-bitcoin-crowdfunds-vr-headset.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After having been given $1,000 by his grandma at only 13-years-old, Erik Finman, now 17, made the risky decision to invest in the notoriously volatile Bitcoin market.<\/p>\n<p><img srcset=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/725_Ly9jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS9zdG9yYWdlL3VwbG9hZHMvdmlldy8wOWFjYWRkMWExOGZiZTJiZjhiNWNhMGYwMzUwNDg4OS5qcGc=.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1450_Ly9jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS9zdG9yYWdlL3VwbG9hZHMvdmlldy8wOWFjYWRkMWExOGZiZTJiZjhiNWNhMGYwMzUwNDg4OS5qcGc=.jpg 2x\" alt=\"Teen Makes $100,000 Through Bitcoin, Crowdfunds VR Headset\" title=\"Teen Makes $100,000 Through Bitcoin, Crowdfunds VR Headset\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When he was 15, only a year and a half later, he liquidated his Bitcoins, making a cool $100,000. He\u2019s now crowdfunding his very own VR headset. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Mashable, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/erik-finman-botangle-after-100k-bitcoin-score-15-year-old-creates-startup\/\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>, Business Insider, The Times, BBC, and more.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/teen-makes-100000-through-bitcoin-crowdfunds-vr-headset?ref=118\">https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/teen-makes-100000-through-bit...et?ref=118<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having been given $1,000 by his grandma at only 13-years-old, Erik Finman, now 17, made the risky decision to invest in the notoriously volatile Bitcoin market. When he was 15, only a year and a half later, he liquidated his Bitcoins, making a cool $100,000. He\u2019s now crowdfunding his very own VR headset. He [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}