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Meet the rookie trader who battled NFT hackers and dodged the crypto crash: ‘When do you sell?’

Vinny Zane: ‘The scary part of the crypto space, more so with NFTs, is that you can so easily get compromised and hacked and lose everything’
Vinny Zane: ‘The scary part of the crypto space, more so with NFTs, is that you can so easily get compromised and hacked and lose everything’ Photo: Vinny Zane

Vinny Zane has a taste for life — and an appetite for risk.

The 38-year-old teacher and father of a 2-year-old son on Brooklyn’s Coney Island got into crypto in 2017 with $4,000 worth of bitcoin, and jumped into NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, last year.

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