The first bitcoin billionaires became known.

With the growth rate of Bitcoin, more and more people become millionaires. And now became the names of the first billionaires, except Satoshi Nakamoto. As might be expected, the first non-anonymous billionaires were the twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss , who in 2013 bought bitcoins worth $ 11 million at a price of about $ 120 for BTC.

The twins received $ 65 million in a lawsuit against the company Facebook (which copied the idea of ​​their social network ConnectU). The brothers invested part of the money in Bitcoin, which surprised their fellow investors a lot. It was the largest investment in cryptocurrency: in fact, two investors bought 1% of all bitcoins in circulation.

Since the moment of investment, the value of “digital gold” has grown by about 10,000%. Now the price of BTC has reached $ 11,375, and the condition of the Winkloss brothers has exceeded a billion dollars and continues to increase as the rate further increases.

“If you consider Bitcoin as the best alternative to gold or a gold type asset, then its market capitalization could reach trillions of dollars,” said Tyler Winklevoss in an interview with CNN in 2015. “It seems to us that these are very real opportunities.”
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Since that time, the brothers have not sold a single bitcoin . As you can see, they did the right thing, and the growth of cryptocurrency capitalization indicates the fair assessment of the potential of this market.

Of course, like Bill Gates and other Forbes people, their wealth is rather arbitrary: it’s just the value of their assets at the current price. If you try to sell all the available shares or bitcoins, then the rate will immediately fall - and the person will receive much less cash than the amount in which his assets were valued.