CP can be profitable!

Revision en3, by pajenegod, 2021-01-02 22:40:55

Let me tell you the story of how I made $2200 from doing competitive programming.

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Once many many fortnights ago Hackerrank held one of its weekly competitions, "Week of Code 29". The competition had some of my all time favorite problems: Almost Integer Rock Garden, Minimal Distance to Pi and Diameter Minimization. Not only were the problems really good, but I was also able to snatch my first top 10 placement ever.

As I recall the prize for getting placed 4 to 10 was a t-shirt and $75. More precisely these $75 were sent in Bitcoin. I received the $75 in Bitcoin on 21st of March 2017.

Prices 2017

When I got them, I didn't really know how to do anything with them, so I kind of just forgot about them. Turns out that the value of the Bitcoin has increased a bit since then:

Prices 2017-2021

30 times more to be precise! So today I just sold them for a bit over $2200. Not too shabby for an 8th place finish in a weekly competition! =D

Tags money, bitcoin, hackerrank

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en7 English pajenegod 2021-01-03 00:15:20 0 (published)
en6 English pajenegod 2021-01-03 00:14:44 51 Tiny change: 'over $2200. Not too ' -> 'over $2200 (Sold when the price was 26640€/btc). Not too '
en5 English pajenegod 2021-01-02 23:26:23 32 Tiny change: ' value of the Bitcoin h' -> ' value of Bitcoin h'
en4 English pajenegod 2021-01-02 23:13:52 686 Tiny change: ' was back in a time when Hack' -> ' was back when Hack'
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en1 English pajenegod 2021-01-02 22:32:58 1620 Initial revision (saved to drafts)