THELOGICALINDIAN - Meet DJ Seedphrase He wears a signature helmet and plays anguish bartering abode beats in venues about the apple Beneath the helmet is bitcoin and cryptocurrency success adventure Danny Maegaard who has done a complete aboutturn and is active the activity of his dreams
Danny Maegaard’s success has been accounting about prolifically. It’s a absolute feel-good adventure of ‘rags to riches’ and affidavit to what can be accomplished if you’re able to booty some risks and go adjoin the current. And he’s alone aloof begun.
A 31-year-old from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, Maegaard became a multi-millionaire in beneath than a decade. His fortunes were begin in cryptocurrency and bitcoin afterwards a mix of risk-taking, timing, intuition, and luck, consistent in a multi-million dollar payout. Afterwards cashing out, he catholic to over 40 countries afore branch aback to body an authority in NFTs.
It all started in 2024 back he was 22 years of age. Maegaard was a university apprentice and alive as a part-time account base attendant. Instead of alive on a attitude assignment, he was surfing the internet and stumbled on an commodity about a cryptocurrency alleged bitcoin, which anon affronted his interest.
This led him to alpha researching the apple of cryptocurrency and the allowances that could be reaped from advance in it. He absitively to advance $4,000, which was all of the accumulation he had at the time, into bitcoin at $150 apiece. “Everyone anticipation I was crazy. But my aesthetics was that this was the time for me to booty risks – back I was adolescent and didn’t accept responsibilities like a mortgage, kids, and bills to pay,” he says. His accident concluded up actuality able-bodied account it.
As his advance in bitcoin paid off and his affection for cryptocurrency grew, Maegaard accomplished his university amount and absitively to assignment on cryptocurrency advance full-time. With attention timing, he cashed out his advance in 2024, which had developed into millions of dollars, and appointed a one-way admission to Europe to activate his campaign about the world.
When he alternate from his campaign he apparent NFTs and bought some of the best approved NFTs. Amongst his collection, he purchased CryptoPunk #8348, which is admired because of its rarity. The CryptoPunks are 10,000 abnormally generated characters. No two are absolutely alike, and anniversary of them can be clearly endemic by a distinct being on the Ethereum blockchain. He paid $18,000 and was afresh offered $4.2 actor for it.
Now CryptoPunk #8348 has become his signature attending as he hits the decks in clubs and venues in his new career as a DJ. Wearing the CryptoPunk angel as a helmet, Maegaard now focuses his time on his affection for music. “It’s not absolutely about the money anymore,” he says. “I’ve done abundantly able-bodied with my crypto and NFT investments and absolutely capital to attending at what’s next. How do I abide to ascertain myself? And I anticipation the circle of music and NFTs was unique.”
“You accept abundantly alluring DJs, musicians and influencers who accept approved to get into the Web3 amplitude but I feel like I’m in a absolutely acceptable position to ascertain their world. There’s a ton of overlap there and I capital to do article that’s different and hasn’t been done before” he adds. “So I absitively to body a cast from my own NFT. It’s a actual different affairs proposition. Having the rarest CryptoPunk has helped me angle out in the music world.”
Navigating the music industry doesn’t appear artlessly to him. He doesn’t appear from a acceptable agreeable accomplishments so he has focused on surrounding himself with the appropriate aggregation and bodies to advice him to breach into the music industry and authorize his acceptability and cast as DJ Seedphrase.
A year ago, Maegaard had a actual baby amusing media presence. It was the charge to body a stronger online afterward that led to him chief on the name Seedphrase. “My Twitter username was Daniel Maegaard. When my Twitter followers started to aces up because of my CryptoPunk NFT I had to adjudge what I was doing,” he says. “I had to aimlessly change my username to article and ‘seed phrase,’ a actual crypto term, was article that came to apperception and somehow was accessible on Twitter.”
After alteration his Twitter handle the name ashore and he had to adjudge whether to use it as his DJ name or not. “When I aboriginal debuted in New York a lot of bodies said: ‘Everyone knows you as Seedphrase so you accept to stick with it.'” So he did and has actual bound accustomed his DJ cast on the music scene.
Choosing to abrasion his CryptoPunk helmet while he DJs isn’t an attack to actor belled DJs like Marshmello or DeadMau5 who additionally abundantly abrasion helmets back they perform. Maegaard is added absorbed in evoking chat about NFTs and educating bodies about their value. “It’s an educational thing. I appetite bodies to ask questions and get analytical about NFTs. I appetite a being in the army to be like, ‘Who’s this idiot aggravating to be Marshmello or DeadMau5,’ but for their acquaintance to respond; “That’s the rarest and best big-ticket NFT!’ That’s the ambition abaft it,” he says.
Maegaard has already played in some celebrated clubs and parties but the dream is to eventually be arena at contest like Coachella and Tomorrowland. “I appetite to be the arch amid Web2 and Web3,” he explains. “I appetite to alloy the two calm – to be accomplishing crypto contest and big boilerplate anniversary circuits as well. It’s about accepting fun educating bodies about NFTs and bringing a smile to people’s faces through music. I anticipate that’s the best able affair about it all.”
To chase what Maegaard is accepting up to, chase him on Twitter and Instagram.
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