Damien

Money stories. Real numbers.

[Damien @itsdamienx]

Lana Rhoades quit porn with about $100,000 in the bank. A few years later she was a multimillionaire. Then she launched an NFT project and deleted her Twitter.

2016. She's 19 when she shoots her first scene.

Late 2017. She walks away after less than two years. She says she "did not get paid sh*t."

So she goes all in on Instagram. Posts every day. She says that's what pushed her to No. 1 on the biggest adult site, after she had already quit.

Then OnlyFans. In 2021 she tells Playboy she makes "hundreds of thousands of dollars per month." On a podcast, she says she's now a multi-millionaire.

Then crypto.

January 2022. She launches CryptoSis: NFT images at 0.1 ETH each.

"The value is going to go way up over the next few months."

"We will be sold out by tomorrow."

It never sold out. The collection size was cut twice.

According to crypto investigator Coffeezilla, the launch brought in about $1.8 million, and around $1.5 million was moved out.

February 24, 2022. Her Twitter, with 1.5 million followers, is deleted.

Her last message to the crypto crowd: "Trust I want nothing to do with the space anymore."

She denied it was a scam: "I have never and will never scam anyone, I don't need to."

The NFTs she sold at 0.1 ETH were trading at 0.01. Down 90%.

In the video below, she explains how little porn actually paid her, and how she made millions only after she left.

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@elisamacro he said they didn't even reply

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He threw away a hard driver with 8,000 bitcoin on it. He offered the city £25 million to let him dig it up. The city told him to pay their £117,000 legal bill first.

His name is James Howells. In 2009 he mined bitcoin on his laptop, back when it was worth almost nothing.

2013. He clears out his office. The wrong hard drive goes into a bin bag. The bag goes to the local landfill in Newport, Wales.

On that drive: the private key to 8,000 bitcoin. Back then, about £500,000.

By 2021 it's worth hundreds of millions. He offers the city council 25% of whatever he recovers.

They say no.

He hires data recovery engineers who say there's an 80% chance the data still works if the disk is intact.

They still say no.

December 2024. He sues the council for £495 million.

January 2025. A judge throws it out: "no realistic prospect of succeeding." His appeal fails two months later.

The council announces it will close the landfill.

July 2025. He offers to buy the site outright for about £25 million.

The council's reply: first, pay the £117,000 in legal costs you owe us.

August 2025. He gives up on digging.

At today's prices, the coins are still worth hundreds of millions. Sitting under a hill of trash in Wales.

"They own the land, and they won't let me enter. There is nothing else I can do."

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@pennystocksxd honestly doesn’t look like it

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@FatmirReads prison over a $2,087 deposit is crazy when you think about it

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@sorennxbt sounds less like a double life and more like survival with guilt attached

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@learnodd that’s the worst part. not lost, just locked behind a city council

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@prodsystems_ the bank cutting her hours to save money is lowkey the whole pot

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@coldfloatrp wild that the smaller paycheck was the first one she actually got to keep

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@Vectorxeth that's the catch with private companies
no public numbers, so you're trusting whoever hands you the docs

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Forbes named Kylie Jenner the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. A year later, Forbes said her family likely forged tax returns to get her there.

2018. Forbes puts her on the cover with a headline about a billion-dollar fortune.

2019. She's 21. Forbes makes it official: the youngest self-made billionaire ever.

November 2019. Coty buys 51% of Kylie Cosmetics for $600 million. That values the company at about $1.2 billion.

May 2020. Forbes publishes a new story: "Inside Kylie Jenner's Web of Lies."

Forbes says it had been told the company did about $360 million in sales in 2018. Coty's own numbers pointed to roughly $125 million.

Forbes says the family "created tax returns that were likely forged" to make the business look bigger.

Her new net worth, per Forbes: just under $900 million. No longer a billionaire.

Her response: "I've never asked for any title or tried to lie my way there EVER."

Her lawyer called the forgery claim "unequivocally false."

Two years earlier, on camera for that same Forbes cover, she shared her business advice: own up to your mistakes "and just being honest."

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@AxiomRift math checks out and honestly nobody did, forbes says it took the family's numbers at face value

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@sorennxbt yep, the deal was real. the sales figures before it were the problem

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@learnodd yeah the title was the only thing that got audited

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@prodsystems_ “just under $900M” is still a pretty good consolation prize

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@Stirkel forbes says the $360m was what the family told them. coty’s own deck said ~$177m for the year before the deal

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@Zevikxs The unpaid $10,000 tells you more, because it’s the only number anyone actually promised her

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@0xNeuroX Every lottery tragedy has the same missing piece: no plan and nobody allowed to say no

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@FatmirReads Telling a cellmate who just admitted to stabbing someone that you’re on your way to the Dr Pepper Museum is elite composure

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@learnodd “Last time I checked, I am indeed not dead” might be the calmest reply to a billionaire in internet history

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@knnoxfiles paper market cap, real bags

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Iggy Azalea quit music and made a "life-changing" fortune on OnlyFans in under a year. Then she launched a memecoin that hit $240 million. By the next summer, it was worth about 4% of that.

2014. "Fancy" makes her the first artist since the Beatles to hold No. 1 and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time.

2023. She announces she's done with music.

The same year, she joins OnlyFans. "I'm no fool. I've been paid before I even made the profile."

Reports say she made $48 million. Asked on ABC's Nightline, she says it's "a little lower." But "a life-changing number."

She uses it to fund her own companies.

May 2024. A scammer on Telegram impersonates her and promises to launch "her" coin in 24 hours.

Her response: "I'm launching mine in 23 hours."

She launches $MOTHER on Solana.

In its first week, the price jumps about 1,200%. One trader turns $3,000 into $9 million. At its peak, the coin is worth about $240 million.

Then on-chain researchers at Bubblemaps flag insider wallets that bought over 20% of the supply straight from the launch team and started selling.

Her answer: she isn't responsible for what holders do with their wallets.

August 2025. The coin's market cap is about $9.5 million. Down roughly 96% from the top.

Asked about memecoins on Nightline, she says: "I think I have been pretty successful at it."