{"id":54800,"date":"2021-12-16T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54800"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:13:05","slug":"australian-teenager-invested-in-bitcoin-and-became-a-millionaire-at-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/australian-teenager-invested-in-bitcoin-and-became-a-millionaire-at-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian teenager invested in Bitcoin and became a millionaire at 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Samuel Snell became interested in investing in cryptocurrencies while still in school and, by the age of 18, had earned his first million. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/fabulous\/17033452\/bullied-at-school-millionaire-at-18-bitcoin-20k-asleep\/\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0430\u0435\u0442<\/a> The Sun.<\/p>\n<p>According to the teenager, he initially faced misunderstanding from adults:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abI became interested in [Bitcoin and Ethereum] in 2014. At that time, my teachers advised me to stop wasting time on cryptocurrency\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But by 17, Snell had bought his first car, a Mercedes Benz. A year later he could afford a second car \u2014 a G-Wagen for $350 000, and diamond-encrusted Rolex designer watches.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager shares details of his luxurious life on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@samuelsnell?referer_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2F&#038;referer_video_id=7035093352232045825&#038;refer=embed&#038;is_copy_url=1&#038;is_from_webapp=v1&#038;item_id=7035093352232045825\">TikTok-\u0430\u043a\u043a\u0430\u0443\u043d\u0442\u0435<\/a>, which is followed by 307 900 people. According to the videos, his daily income sometimes reaches $27 000.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian tracks his investments via a $20 000 computer system. It is equipped with three screens, LED lamps and a backlit keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Today Samuel Snell is the co-founder of Crypto Gods, which, he claims, is the largest private crypto company in the country. As part of the project, the teenager runs investment courses for three thousand clients.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, many users refuse to take Snell at his word and demand from him a step-by-step guide to turning a profit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIf this guy really wanted to make you rich, he would share his portfolio with you,\u201d wrote one of them in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou spend money, and then you sell your educational course. Done,\u201d added another.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that a 14-year-old American artist <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/14-year-old-american-artist-earns-over-1-million-from-nft-collection-in-under-24-hours\">earned more than $1 million in 10 hours<\/a> from NFTs.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Samuel Snell became interested in investing in cryptocurrencies while still in school, and by 18 had earned his first million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,18,1267,1589],"class_list":["post-54800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-australia","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-trading","tag-tiktok"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"113","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54802,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54800\/revisions\/54802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}