Pop star Lily Allen has voiced her regret at refusing to accept payment in Bitcoins for a gig.
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Kanye West gets his own virtual currency Forgotten your password? At the time of the interview, the singer was 28 years old and had a fortune estimated at 6 million euros. However, Metro. The Independent said the singer at the time was feeling stupid for not having accepted the cryptomime, since that year the appreciation of the digital currency would have made her worth at least 20 times more.
Lily Allen Once Turned Down Bitcoin For A Gig That’s Worth $9.2 Billion Today
Lily even posted that same opinion on Twitter, in a post where she talked about the missed opportunity. I did not accept.
But of course, as we know, the history of Bitcoin did not end in , the currency remained firm and very strong in the following years. This would make Allen one of the richest women in the UK and would have much more money than Queen Elizabeth herself, who has an estimated fortune of million euros.