Jontay Porter’s parents recently bought him a used Ford SUV, but the Missouri freshman forward had to repay them, and this is where the story takes a funny twist.
Porter didn’t have enough U.S. dollars available when his mother asked for the money he owed. So the 18-year-old got creative.
He sold off about half of his portfolio of five different cryptocurrencies: bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple and tron.
“I was kind of sad, because (the market) was about to bounce back,” Porter said. “ But my mom needed it right away.”