Thus, on June 24, 2013, the 56-year-old American became richer than everyone living on Earth. Suffice it to say that at that time, the fortune of Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, who was ranked first on the Forbes list, was a “miserable” $73 billion.

Reynolds admitted in an interview that he did not believe in such luck, deciding that it was just someone’s joke. He had only a thousand dollars on PayPal. After some time, Chris rechecked his balance, which turned out to be zero, as it should have been. So where did the incredible amount go? 

Soon, the payment system’s employees admitted that the amount was credited to Chris Reynolds’ account due to a technical error. As a result, Reynolds could have become more than a million times richer than the Mexican Slim.

As compensation, the American was offered to contribute to charity, which would be paid by PayPal. It needs to be reported what Chris decided to do. But Reynolds willingly told journalists about where he would spend 92 quadrillion dollars.

In this case, the generous American would pay off the US national debt of $16 trillion. He would also buy the Philadelphia Phillies, the oldest baseball club in the United States, founded in 1883. At the same time, Chris added: “If I was offered a good price.” You must admit that for a person who has 92 quadrillion dollars in his account, haggling over some trifle of a few million is simply not serious.

By the way, in 2014, the volume of payments processed by Pay Pal amounted to 235 billion dollars. So it is hard to even calculate how many years the company would take to pay off Chris Reynolds. And this is even though it operates in 190 countries and currently has more than 164 million users. And the company itself was founded in 1998, and among its founders was Max Levchin, a native of the Soviet Union whose family has been living in the United States since 1991.