50 Cent Earns £5 Million From Bitcoin In Album Sales

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is well known for the music and movies he does, but much is known about the "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" artist trying his hands on cryptocurrency as a way of making a fortune. 

How 41-year-old rapper made millions of dollars from Bitcoin is not by direct investment into the currency, but he accepted payment for his 2014 album "Animal Ambition" in the cryptocurrency from which he made 700 Bitcoin (in IRL money is worth $400,000) from the album sales. 

What he earned three year in from album sales in current value has grown from couple of thousands of dollars to millions to the tune of about $7 million - 8.5 million(£5 - £6 million). 

In effect, the rapper now has stash of millions of dollars added to his wealth just by the way of taking cryptocurrency for his album sales.