US guy wakes up a ‘trillionnaire’ after buying crypto worth $20
Williamson, a nursing student, woke up on the morning of June 16 to check his trading account on Coinbase, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, and fell out of bed. His trading account showed a balance of more than $1 trillion, which would make him the first-ever trillionaire in the world.
“I woke up, it's like 9 am and I always check my phone to check how my crypto is doing and I'm just like, ‘Naw, I'm sleeping'. I look at it again and I'm like… at that point, I fell ou ..…
That’s as good as it got for Williamson.
He went on micro-blogging site twitter the same day to get a handle on things. “I’m gonna need someone to explain what the heck is going on and then write me a check. I got a mega yacht shaped like a penguin on standby,” Williamson wrote on his twitter handle.
It turned out, that the $20 worth of RocketBunny cryptocurrency that Williamson had purchased using his Coinbase account had not turned into more than $1 trillion overnight. The balance being reflected on Williamson’s Coinbase account was a ‘technical error’.
“Sorry -- the penguin yacht may have to wait -- our team is aware of the display error causing this wishful thinking for some ERC20s. They're working to fix -- in the meantime, trading the asset will reflect its current market value,” the Coinbase twitter handle responded to Williamson’s tweet two days later.
Before dwelling deeper into Williamson’s troubles, it is important to acknowledge the cryptocurrency Williamson purchased for $20.