It’s usually the hefty servings of Christmas ham that sprawls Australian families sprawled across for the post-lunch nap, but one particular conversation point probably helped the nation fall asleep this year: Bitcoin. Fucken bitcoin.
We won’t begrudge you for slipping out of consciousness as your 17-year-old cousin explained blockchain in needless detail, but just know that not every household flaunted the merits of digital investments. Hell, some focussed on, y’know, regular investments.
At least, that’s what happened over in the Kardashian-West household.
Instead of gifting Kim Kardashian a wallet packed full of intangible coins, Kanye West instead spent at least $3o0,000 on a slew of stocks in Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and The Walt Disney Company.
Taking to Instagram, Kardashian told her followers that Ye had first given her a box containing Apple earbuds, a Mickey Mouse toy, Adidas socks, and an Amazon voucher.
While that’d be a reasonably solid Christmas gift in-and-of itself, a second box held the stock certificates. Check ’em out:
With a current share price of $260 a pop, those Adidas shares are worth a cool $168,553, in addition to the Disney shares clocking in at $129,000. And we can’t even see how much Kanye dropped on the Apple and Amazon shares.
Of course, there’s every chance these two have already done a deep dive into cryptocurrency, but it’s a little harder to stunt ones and zeroes than a flashy certificate – and their practical guarantee that this family will be financially set for generations to come.
