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Cameron Howard Winklevoss and Tyler Howard Winklevoss are twins, American rowers and entrepreneurs. The brothers are the founders of the social network ConnectU and have long sued Mark Zuckerberg, insisting that he stole the idea for his Facebook website.
Back in 2013, the twins invested approximately $11 million in bitcoins, buying around 1% of the cryptocurrency's volume, and in December 2017 became the world's first (publicly known) bitcoin billionaires. In 2013, the brothers bought bitcoins at $120 per bitcoin, and in December 2017, the cryptocurrency reached $20,000. Today, the Winklevoss twins remain one of the biggest investors in bitcoin, which is considered "an improved version of gold".
One might note that the news release of the major media outlets about twins and bitcoins has correlated markedly with the price of the cryptocurrency itself:

🔗 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/09/the-11-million-in-bitcoins-the-winklevoss-brothers-bought-is-now-worth-32-million - shortly after the release of this news the price of bitcoin jumped several times, from $200 to $1100.
The dynamics of the twins' popularity demonstrates that they gained their fame not due to their sports achievements, creation of a social network, litigation with Mark Zuckerberg and even not due to Ben Mezrich's novel about the creation of Facebook. Their fame came precisely the month of the release of the Hollywood movie The Social Network by popular director David Fincher.
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