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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Emma Munbodh

Brit schoolboy, 12, creates £3m cryptocurrency empire after learning to code aged 5

A boy who built a collection of digital art work at the age of just 12, has earned a crpytocurrency fortune of £750,000 in a matter of months.

Benyamin Ahmed, who learnt to code from his dad when he was five, released his own whale-themed collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) last July.

These are one-of-a-kind digital artworks which can be bought and sold online through cryptocurrencies.

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