This Wonder Boy With An IQ Higher Than Einstein Asks For A Crypto Christmas Gift

JAKARTA – A 12-year-old boy, named Barnaby Swinburn, asked for two Christmas gifts in the form of cryptocurrency and a Mensa IQ test. The resident of Bristol, England was tested and found to have a higher score than physicist Albert Einstein who had a score of 160. While Swinburn got an IQ test score of 162.

A 12 year old's wish for crypto gifts has come true. The mother, Ghislaine, said that her son would receive an envelope filled with money that could be converted into cryptocurrency, as reported by BristolLive.

"He is observing the market. He will get an envelope with money in it for Christmas which he will turn into cryptocurrency,” said the mother.

Even so, the Swinburn family has not revealed how much money and crypto will be used as Christmas gifts this year. Swinburn, who is interested in crypto, has aspirations to become a programmer.

"He's been looking for a university course, and he wants to go to Oxford," Ghislaine added.

Switching from the UK, a father in Brazil reportedly gave a gift of 1 Bitcoin (BTC) to his newborn daughter in 2017. At that time, the price per Bitcoin was Rp. 13 million. Four years later, the price of Bitcoin has skyrocketed by 6,500 percent, the price per BTC being 60,000 US dollars (approximately IDR 853,713,000) per coin on October 17, 2021.

The father, named João Canhada, who is also the founder of the Brazilian crypto exchange Foxbit, later realized that 2017 was his last chance to buy 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 that time, BTC was worth 5,000 Brazilian Reals,” Canhada was quoted as saying by Cointelegraph.