popularly gummo Known as the famous hacker, he gave an interview to the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly, which has more than 3 million subscribers. While Gummo talked about many topics from how technology is ruining our lives today to what is pushing it to hack, he also touched on a topic that will cause debate among people: $7 billion BTCHe claimed to have.
Gummo has been a hacker for over thirty years. The famous hacker stated in the interview in question that although he started hacking for illegal reasons and was caught by the authorities, he now tends to do good works thanks to the support and counseling of his wife.
In a previous interview with the same YouTube channel a year ago, he announced that he gave up being a hacker after he was caught selling $10 million worth of stolen code. At that time, he was given the choice of either helping the developers of the company he attacked or going to jail.
Answering why he did the 9-5 job despite having quite a lot of BTC, Gummo said:
“I am quite rich. Yes, I don’t have to work if I don’t want to. I own more than seven billion dollars worth of Bitcoin.”
At the current price of Bitcoin of about $39,000, this is 180,000 BTC, which makes Gummo one of the largest individual holders of the top cryptocurrency. If he truly owns $7 billion in BTC, it will also place him among the 350 richest people on the planet. So, if you had $7 billion worth of BTC, would you keep working in a 9-5 job?