(Note: This article is an individual case, remember that investment is risky!) ）
Ghozali Ghozalo, 22, is an ordinary university student in Indonesia.
In addition to her ordinary family background, Ghozali looks quite ordinary.
But just recently, Ghozali suddenly became a global influencer, netting more than a million dollars. And the Internet is also full of myths about his million-dollar fortune in just 4 days.
I believe that many people will be curious for the first time, what did he do? Is it a stock speculation genius?
But people were stunned when they learned about his path to riches – because he became a millionaire by selling his selfies!
What kind of selfies are worth so much money? Netizens ran to take a look at his selfie and found that almost every one of them was a selfie of the same angle.
Some of the backgrounds are very dull and monotonous, and some of the photos show him just waking up, his hair uncombed, and his beard not shaved.
These photos can actually sell for millions of dollars, which can really be called one of the most bizarre news at the beginning of 2022.
It turns out that Ghozali, starting in 2017 and 2021, will take a selfie in front of the computer almost every day because of the school's homework schedule.
Although he sometimes missed the shot during the period, he took a total of 933 selfies before and after.
By chance, he came into contact with NFTs (non-homogeneous tokens). That is, the current very popular regional chain currency.
Although it is traded on the regional chain like Bitcoin, unlike each Bitcoin, which is equivalent to each bitcoin, each NFT is unique and indivisible, and it is a unique digital asset.
Its ownership can be recorded and managed through the blockchain, and because of this special property, NFTs have become the safest and most convenient tool for digital art transactions.
For example, when an artist wants to sell their work, they can create or "cast" an NFT, and from then on it will represent ownership of the work.
Artists can put it on the NFT market for trading, and the exchange has to go completely into their own pockets, removing unnecessary intermediate links, which is simple and convenient.
So Ghozali thought to himself, since artists own the products they create, then turn into NFTs to sell and make money,
Then he can also concoct the products he has created.
Then looking at his 933 selfies, he had the whim to upload them to OpenSea, the world's largest NFT trading platform.
On Jan. 9, he uploaded his selfie at OpenSea and sold it for 0.001ETH (at the time, about 20 yuan) and named it Ghozali Everyday.
The name is a bit of a tribute to Everydays: The First 5000 Days, an NFT work that previously sold at Christie's for 450 million yuan.
In March last year, artist Beeple (real name Mike Winkelmann) combined 5,000 art drawings he had created in the past 13 years into a large digital canvas, which sold for as much as $69 million in NFT, setting a record for the highest price of a digital art in the history of auction.
It also makes Beeple the third most valuable living artist in the world, behind American artist Jeff Koons and British artist David Hockney.
Perhaps trying to replicate the myth of Beeple, Ghozali took a similar name.
But I didn't expect his dream to come true, because his selfie was on the shelves for less than 2 days, and the price began to soar.
From the original price of 0.001 ETH all the way to the highest 0.9 ETH (about 18,000 yuan), from 20 yuan to 18,000 yuan, the price has increased by a full 900 times.
As of Jan. 14, the total volume of his series of selfies in OpenSea had reached 314 ETH, and at the price at the time, it had reached $1 million (equivalent to 6.34 million yuan).
So Ghozali, who is only 22 years old, only took 4 days, almost zero cost to sell his selfie at the bottom of the box, and empty gloves for 6.34 million yuan?
This myth of wealth is also too magical!
It is estimated that seeing this, netizens can't help but ask: Is it true that traders on OpenSea are all stupid people with more money? Are these selfies worth $6.34 million?
The reason for his selfie booth sales is reportedly largely because Arnold Poernomo, a well-known Indonesian chef, has become a buyer, and he and celebrities such as Jeffry Jouw, a well-known Indonesian entrepreneur, have also helped to promote it.
Later, some NFT hunters began to use his selfie p into funny memes on the Internet, so that the price of his ordinary selfie would soar and sell so high.
Ghozali himself was surprised by this unexpected red fortune, and his parents did not know that he was already an Internet celebrity.
He also revealed that although he still has a lot of selfies on hand, he has no intention of selling them in the next few years.
Selling his own selfie NFT means that the ownership of his selfie is no longer in his own hands. So on Jan. 12 he tweeted that buyers would treat his selfie kindly.
"It's been 3 days and there are 331 selfies left in the NFT. It's sold out because I won't be taking new selfies for the next few years.
You can do anything with the photos, like reselling, but please don't abuse my photos, otherwise my parents will be very disappointed in me. I believe in you, so please be kind to my picture. ”
After seeing Ghozali become popular and rich, other netizens also began to be eager to try, wanting to use their "appearance" to reproduce his road to riches.
"Ghozali's story makes me even more confused about the world today, but I want to ask you, if only this selfie would be worth before that?"
Another Japanese netizen has also taken a lot of selfies in the past 2 years like Ghozali, and now he also sells selfies of himself at the NFT market when he eats alone.
Whether they will finally be able to reproduce Ghozali's myth of wealth and achieve wealth freedom by selling their selfies, we have no way of knowing.
I thought, it was so magical...