The man, who owns 180.00 bitcoins, equivalent to $ 7 billion, announced that he earned his living by hacking.
There are some who open their rich eyes to life. Others are deprived of their father, as the child of a poor and alcoholic mother. The man who owns 180,000 bitcoins, hacker Gummo is one of them.
The man who owns 180,000 bitcoins summed up his life with his statements
Gummo first appeared on the Soft White Underbelly YouTube channel in December 2020, where he gave a recap of his life over 30 years and how he became a hacker. Gummo, who came from a low-income family and was raised by his alcoholic mother without his father, and lost her when he was 12, talked about how his love for computers changed his life. Below you can find the first interview with him in 2020.
In a 2020 interview, Gummo says he was caught selling $10 million worth of code and was given the choice to sit in jail for his crimes or to use his skills to improve the technology he hacked in consultation with the developers. Choosing the latter, Gummo continued to be a good hacker, explaining in a recent interview that he was mentoring to find people to watch and do threat hunts.
Throughout the interview, Gummo claims to own more than $7 billion in Bitcoin, which means he owns about 182,000 Bitcoins at current prices of $38,500.