‘Wolf of Wall Street’ inspiration Jordan Belfort reportedly charged $40,000 for a 2-day crypto workshop at his Miami estate — three years after he called Bitcoin a ‘mass delusion’

‘Wolf of Wall Street’ inspiration Jordan Belfort reportedly charged $40,000 for a 2-day crypto workshop at his Miami estate — three years after he called Bitcoin a ‘mass delusion’

Jordan Belfort, the real-life inspiration behind "The Wolf of Wall Street," hosted his first cryptocurrency workshop last week. Its nine attendees paid one Bitcoin — or approximately $40,000 — to attend the "mastermind" class held at Belfort's Miami estate, reported Friday. In a video promoting the event, the former stock broker and convicted felon said he's been "heavily investing" in crypto and NFT's, which he called the "future of finance." Belfort pleaded guilty in 1999 to defrauding more than 1,500 individual investors out of $200 million. After serving 22 months in prison, Belfort published his now-famous memoir and became a motivational speaker. His TikTok @wolfofwallstreet has 3.7 million followers. The recent focus on bitcoin, however, is a stark turn from Belfort's previous views on cryptocurrency, which he expressed in a 2018 titled "The Bitcoin Market has Finally Run Out of Greater Fools." During the video, Belfort says the increasing value of Bitcoin is thanks to the "greater fool" theory, which states that overvalued assets can still be sold for profit if you can find a "greater fool." That is, until the market runs out of fools to trick. "I know this better than anyone in the world," he said. "I'm