After finishing college in 2008, Smith landed a respectable job as a software engineer for a large technology company in Silicon Valley. At the time, expecting any sort of return was a moonshot; even in Silicon Valley, simply mentioning “Bitcoin” was enough to raise eyebrows. Everything checked out: here was a man who had truly become filthy rich from Bitcoin, the proverbial Bitcoin millionaire. “$25 million, give or take.”$25 million from an initial investment of $3,000—those are the sort of returns that make a Bitcoin millionaire. It’s been four years since he left his regular life in Silicon Valley behind, and in that span he’s been traveling non-stop.

Source: Forbes July 07, 2017 11:30 UTC