50 Cent’s Bitcoin fortune has hit a record amount after he forgot that he had an extra stash of crypto.

The rapper has been investing in cryptocurrency for the last decade after he reportedly made the decision back in 2014 to receive a payment of Bitcoin when selling his album ‘Animal Ambition’.

At the time, the move was thought of as bizarre but it looks like it has quite literally paid off.

In total, 50 Cent earned 700 Bitcoin from the sale which, at the time, worked out to around $455,000.

And while that’s an amount many wouldn’t be able to forget in a hurry, for a man that’s worth over $140 million, he pushed it to the back of his mind.

The value of Bitcoin has skyrocketed in the last decade (Umit Turhan Coskun/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

However, it looks like it could be the best financial decision he has ever made because the value of the crypto has since skyrocketed over the years and now, that amount has grown massively.

How much is 700 Bitcoin worth in 2025?

Hopefully 50 Cent was smart enough to realize the potential of Bitcoin and continue to hold though, as the cryptocurrency has continued to climb in value and now sits at over $100,000 per coin – 10 times that of its 2018 value and nearly 1,600 times more expensive compared to when people handed the coin over in 2014.

At the time of writing, the exact value of Bitcoin is $109,078.99, so this across 700 coins would total an overall fortune of $76,355,293 – which would be nearly double his current net worth of $40 million according to AFROTECH.

It’ll also be depressing to look back for anyone who handed over Bitcoin in exchange for 50 Cent’s album, as it would have taken roughly 0.16 Bitcoin to purchase it (based on a single Bitcoin price of $62.8 and an album price of $10), which roughly works out to $17,452.64 today.

50 Cent forgot about his Bitcoin investment (Prince Williams/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

That could buy you 1745 copies of Animal Ambition, or work out as enough money to buy the album roughly every two and a half days since its June 3, 2014, release date.

However, not everyone has been lucky when it comes to their Bitcoin investments.

Campbell Simpson, who is the editor of Gizmodo Australia, revealed that he got rid of a computer hard drive in 2010 before realizing that it contained something that would later become very valuable.

Inside the hardware was 1400 Bitcoin, which at the time only cost around $25.

Simpson said: “This is probably one of the stupidest things, in hindsight, that I’ve ever done. And I’ve done a lot of stupid things a lot of times.”

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50 Cent would be extremely rich if he has held onto his Bitcoin holdings

Everybody is aware of quite how much Bitcoin is worth today, but nothing quite shows how much it’s grown in value over the past decade than looking at what 50 Cent’s meagre $455,000 investment in 2014 would be valued at if he sold it right now.

Bitcoin hasn’t always been the ultra valuable digital property that we know it as in 2025, and for years it was considered an oddity only the tech and finance obsessed would truly believe in.

You’d often hear stories about how people had thousands of dollars worth of cryptocurrency tokens locked away in a wallet they couldn’t access, but one famous figure managed to make a fortune from Bitcoin simply by forgetting it existed.

Following the announcement of his 2014 album ‘Animal Ambition’, famous rapper 50 Cent made the bizarre choice to let people purchase the LP using Bitcoin.

50 Cent made the bizarre choice to let people buy his 2014 album using Bitcoin, which was worth just $650 at the time (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

How much Bitcoin did 50 Cent have?

Worth around $650 at the time, Bitcoin remained still on the fringes of society and very few people would have the digital coin lying around, let along willing to use it to order the upcoming 50 Cent album.

It proved to be a surprisingly popular promotion though, if not only because those holding Bitcoin finally had a use for it outside of the trading process, and the rapper managed to earn himself 700 Bitcoin, which was worth roughly $455,000 at the time, as per GQ.

Fortunately he actually forgot all about the Bitcoin he’d earned until four years later in 2018 when it cropped back up again. At that time the cryptocurrency was worth around $10,000 per coin, turning the comparatively tiny $455,000 into a staggering $7,000,000 fortune.

What would 700 Bitcoin be worth today?

It’s unclear whether 50 Cent sold off all his Bitcoin when he found it again back in 2018, but if he was smart enough to hold on to it despite all of the financial incentives not to do so, he would be even richer today.

With a current value of $107,810.84 at the time of writing, if you were to sell all 700 Bitcoin at the same time you’d manage to earn yourself $75,467,588, which is certainly a tidy some compared to the pitiful $455,000 it would have been worth over a decade ago.

50 Cent’s 700 Bitcoin would be worth over $75 million if he sold it all today (Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

For comparison, Animal Ambition sold just 124,000 copies by December 2014, making roughly $1,240,000 if you assumed that every album purchase was $10.

In making the bold decision to shop the record with Bitcoin, 50 Cent increased his earnings by nearly seven times when the crypto funds were rediscovered in 2018, and would have made over 60 times that amount if it was sold today.

50 Cent became an accidental ‘Bitcoin millionaire’ after discovering his forgotten crypto stash

Imagine having so much wealth you can simply ‘forget’ about potential millions sitting in the bank. That’s what apparently happened to Curtis James Jackson III, or as you might know him, 50 Cent. As well as being the man behind hit singles including “In Da Club” and “P.I.M.P.”, Jackson has taken his career beyond music to appear in everything from Spy to the Escape Plan movies. When not spitting lyrics or acting in front of the camera, it turns out 50 Cent is something of a crypto bro. Well, if he can remember where he put his wallet.

Back in 2014, 50 Cent was an early adopter of cryptocurrency and let fans pay for his album with Bitcoin.

If you haven’t heard of “Animal Ambition”, you aren’t alone. 50 Cent only made 700 Bitcoin from the release of “Animal Ambition” and then promptly forgot about it.

Still, with Bitcoin hitting an all-time high and crossing $100k, it would be worth a jaw-dropping $69,156, 878 at the time of writing.

Back when the album was first released, Bitcoin was only worth $662. Consumers were encouraged to get a copy of the album for a fraction of a singular Bitcoin, with his 700 BTC equivalent only pulling in $400k.

When TMZ first reported the news in 2018, the haul was reportedly worth $7-$8 million, showing just how much Bitcoin has soared – you can thank the American election for that one.

Confirming the news back then, Jackson posted a screenshot of the article on Instagram and wrote: “Not bad for a kid from South Side, I’m so proud of me.”

He also shared a shot of him surrounded by Bitcoins and added: “A little bit coin anyone? LOL. l know l make you sick but excuse me I’m getting to the bag.”

In a bizarre twist, The Blast apparently obtained bankruptcy court documents where Jackson claims he never owned any Bitcoin, and maintains that what was invested in “Animal Ambition” was converted into USD before it reached him. He says he went along with the TMZ story because it made him look good.

Still, 50 Cent has made other lucrative moves, like earning somewhere in the region of $100 million when Coca-Cola bought VitaminWater for $4.1 billion.

Let’s also remember that shortly after filing for bankruptcy in 2015, 50 Cent signed on to star in and executive produce the TV show Power for a cool $150 million deal.

No one seems to know what he’s worth these days, with TikToker Frank Michael Smith claiming that while Jackson was worth $500 million in 2010, bankruptcy and other issues mean it was closer to $30 million in 2022. Then again, with him making the cover of The Hollywood Reporter in 2024 to talk about his wealth, it would suggest he’s doing pretty well again. Either way, it sounds like 50 Cent’s Bitcoin stash (if it existed at all) is long gone