Nick Sears Said No To College, Yes To Bitcoin, Is Making $54,000 A Year
Sears was 17 years old when he got into BTC mining, now he is 19, oversees a farm with 4,500 ASICs, and makes $54,000 a year.Nick Sears, a 19-year-old entrepreneur from Dallesport, Washington, has said no to college and yes to bitcoin when he was 17 years old and helped build a bitcoin mining farm in that town. Now, he earns $54,000 per year.“I don’t think about going to college at all, just pursuing further knowledge in the repairs of the miners,” Sears told CNBC.The 19-year-old lives in a room inside the data center he helped build when he was 17 years old. The hydro-powered facility....
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