I don’t know. 12 is a bit young but I remember having a job at 14 and “limitless money” because I didn’t have any responsibilities. I could have easily justified $900 as “only two pay checks”.
Earning $900 at 14 seems extraordinarily high, especially if you're talking about a while ago.
In the UK a 14yo can only work 25h/week outside term time and must have at least two weeks rest over summer, with no minimum wage. £4/h isn't unheard of (a pretty typical rate for a paperound). I worked cleaning cars at a garage decades ago, maybe scraping £3/h for 10 hours a week. I think many of today's 14yos would struggle to break £400 over the entire holiday.
... That is, as is the contention here, unless they have a family member paying them a decent wage.
They claim this was his second set of NFTs, and that he managed to make 3,350 unique artworks to sell this time:
> This time, he drew inspiration from a well known pixelated whale meme image and a popular digital-art style but used his own program to create the set of 3,350 emoji-type whales.
All while coding for "20 to 30 minutes per day".
Seems pretty clear that this is the dad (who works in software in finance) cashing in on the NFT trend and using his 12 year old son to generate the publicity.
Idk, I guess I must've been a poor 12-year old, if that's what 12-year olds spend on their hobbies nowadays.
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