How 12 year old child earned £290,000 sitting at home

London: A 12-year-old boy in London has done something that cannot be easily believed.

During school holidays, 12-year-old Benjamin Ahmed created a pixelated artwork named 'Weird Whales', which he has sold and earned £290,000.

Benjamin sold these digital images to NFT (Non-Fugible Tokens), where he was paid heavily for his creativity.

An artwork can be "tokenized" via NFT. This creates a digital certificate and the artwork can then be bought and sold.

They generally do not give the original artwork or copyright to the buyer.

Benjamin Ahmed has been paid in the form of Ethereum (cryptocurrency). This means that the price of their artworks may increase or decrease.

Those studying with Benjamin probably do not know yet that one of his friends has earned £290,000 sitting at home. Although Benjamin keeps sharing many videos related to his hobbies, likes and dislikes on his YouTube channel.

12-year-old Benjamin enjoys swimming, playing badminton and practicing Taekwondo.

He says, "My advice to other kids who want to get into this field is not to come under any pressure and force yourself to do coding. You may be under pressure from people around you. Take it as per your ability."

Benjamin's father, Imran is a software developer. It was he who encouraged Benjamin and his brother Joseph to start coding at the age of five and six.

Imran says, "It is true that children got advice and help by talking to technical experts but still they could do it, it is a matter of pride."

Imran explains, "It started out like a pretty fun exercise but soon it was realized that the kids were understanding it fast and moving forward very quickly. They were really good."

"So we also started getting a little more serious and then today is the day we all have in front of us. But you can't cram this thing. You can't say I'm going to learn coding in three months."

He told that both his children did 20 or 30 minutes of coding exercise every day and they continued to do it even on holidays.

Weird Whale is Benjamin's second digital-art collection. Earlier he had created artwork inspired by Minecraft. However, it could not sell for a very good price.

This time he took inspiration from the popular pixelated whale meme. But this time, he made 3,350 types of emoji-type whales from his program.

"It was interesting to see them all hatch as they slowly build up on my screen," says Benjamin.

Benjamin has just begun work on his third, superhero-themed collection.

Imran is absolutely sure that his son has not broken any copyright law. They are also "auditing" the work and seeking legal advice on trademarking the designs.

The art world, however, has mixed opinions on the current trend of NFTs.