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The Winklevoss Twins Are Now Bitcoin Billionaires (theverge.com)
The twin brothers who gained notoriety for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the claim that they started Facebook have done remarkably well in the wake of Bitcoin's record gains. From a report: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss won $65 million from the Facebook lawsuit, and invested $11 million of their payout into Bitcoin in 2013, amassing one of the largest portfolios of Bitcoin in the world -- 1 percent of the entire currency's dollar value equivalent, said the twins at the time. Their slice of the Bitcoin pie is now worth over $1 billion after Bitcoin surged past $10,000 last week to now trade at $11,100, according to CoinDesk. The cryptocurrency has surged over 10,000 percent since the Winklevoss' investment, when one coin traded at around $120.
Try selling that off. I guarantee they won't get anywhere close to $1 billion, as the price drops while selling.
So I guess the stock market isn't real either.
You can't take that much money out of a bank in one go either. I guess banks aren't real.
Even with a hostile take over, most of the consideration is in the form of shares.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.