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Hodl until mega yacht: Mintable founder shares crypto journey

While other traders may be quick to take profits once they see gains, some are willing to hold on to their digital assets until they can pursue bigger goals, like a “mega yacht.”  In a Twitter thread, Mintable founder Zach Burks shared how he found Web3 and went from being broke and jobless to founding a nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace. According to Burks, he found Bitcoin (BTC) when it was just trading at $5.50 at the now defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox in 2012. Since then, Burks went on to keep on buying and trading crypto. At some point, the Mintable founder shared that he switched from trading BTC to accumulating Ether (ETH). “My goal was only to collect ETH and never sell until I can buy a mega yacht. I still haven’t cashed out,” he wrote. Eventually, Burks said that he...