Barnaby Swinburn, a 12-year-old who got 162 on the Mensa IQ test, was inducted into the high-IQ club.
A 12-year-old schoolkid with an intelligence quotient (IQ) higher than Albert Einstein got his wish of owning bitcoins this Christmas.
Barnaby Swinburn, a Bristol, England native, had requested two Christmas gifts: a Mensa IQ exam and a Bitcoin portfolio. Swinburn received the highest possible score of 162 on the test, topping Einstien’s IQ of 160, according to BristolLive. As a result, the schoolboy was accepted into the high-IQ society, which only accepts the top 2% of Mensa scorers.
Swinburn’s mother, Ghislaine, remarked regarding cryptocurrencies:
“He’s been watching the markets. He’ll be getting an envelope with money in it for Christmas which he’ll turn into cryptocurrency.”
The Swinburn family, on the other hand, has yet to publish the monetary amount as well as the cryptocurrency that were acquired this Christmas.
Swinburn aspires to be a coder as a result of his passion in cryptography. Ghislaine continued, “He’s already looking at university courses, and he wants to go to Oxford,”
A Brazilian father gifted his newborn daughter 1 Bitcoin (BTC) back in 2017 when it was priced at roughly $915.80. Fast-forward four years, the young girl witnessed a return of over 6,500% as BTC surged above $60,000 back on Oct. 17.
The father, João Canhada, who is also the founder of a Brazilian crypto exchange Foxbit, later realized that the year 2017 was the last chance for him to purchase Bitcoin under $1000:
“As soon as my daughter was born, in 2017, I bought 1 Bitcoin for her, not just as a gift, but as a way of investing in this new economy. At the time, BTC cost 5,000 Brazilian Real.”
