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🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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0:45.2 | Money for nothing. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town. |
1:05.2 | When Chris Reynolds opened up his June PayPal statement, he knew something seemed off. |
1:10.0 | The 56-year-old Pennsylvania man who sells auto parts on eBay was stunned to see the 92 quadrillion |
1:17.4 | dollar credit to his PayPal account. That's 15 zeros. And that exact amount breaks down to, |
1:24.2 | and I'm probably wrong about this because I've never had to count this high, I suppose, |
1:28.6 | or register this amount of money. Yeah, we don't work for the national treasury. |
1:34.2 | 92 quadrillion, 233 trillion, 720 billion, 368 million, $547,800 was credited to Chris Reynolds' PayPal. |
1:49.5 | Wow. Wow. They can't even express that in a way that's got the little tiny number in the |
1:54.7 | upper right hand corner, right? To show just how big a number it is, just how abstract. But not |
2:00.8 | abstract for this man. So for approximately one minute, Chris Reynolds was the richest man in the |
2:06.8 | world by far. Leaps and bounds. In June 2013, Reynolds became the world's first quadrillionaire, |
2:15.3 | but it didn't take long to find that the balance had already returned to the correct amount. Zero. |
2:20.1 | Bummer. You open up your bank and you're like, I thought there was more money in this. That's |
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