The story of the first people in the world who made a fortune by bitcoin.

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Do you remember the movie The Social Network? It tells the story of Facebook founder Zuckerberg and the process of creating Facebook. Among them, Xiao Zha "stole" the idea of the Winklevoss brothers, and the defendant went to court, which was entirely based on real events.

After these years, Xiaozha's worth exceeds $70 billion. I wonder if the Harvard twins are doing well.

In fact, people not only waved everywhere, but also became a bitcoin family.

It is said that the two brothers bought 1 1 ten thousand dollars out of the 65 million dollars they should have won in the lawsuit with Xiaozha. Komoto Satoshi calculated that it was 2 10000! ! Judging from today's bitcoin market price, these two brothers have exceeded 654.38+0 billion, making them the first ten bitcoin billionaires in the world.

What are the backgrounds of these two people? Is this really like the black man in the movie, with developed limbs and simple mind? They spend money. What is The Secret Behind? Today, let's take a look at Winklevoss Brothers and Bitcoin//

Hostility between Harvard and Shuang Bao, in the movie "The Social Network", the two brothers are described as people who put on suits, put on garlic and take off their clothes to go boating. The two brothers grew up in an academic family. Their father is a professor of actuarial science at Wharton Business School and started his own consulting company. They were not only admitted to Harvard University together, but also proficient in piano, Latin and ancient Greek. Gao Fushuai.

They also won the sixth place in the men's rowing competition of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in sculls and single paddles.

As early as 13 years old, they taught themselves HTML together and made a commercial website. In this way, their academic qualifications are not worse than Xiao Cha.

In 2002, the two brothers planned to create an online social network, connectharvrd (later renamed connectu), to connect all Harvard students through the social platform, so that students can chat and make friends freely on the website and change their status to "single or not".

But ... . Why does it sound like Facebook?

The two brothers initially asked Xiaozha to help write the code. Unexpectedly, Xiaozha directly established his own Facebook.

After the two men took Xiaozha to court, the case lasted for several years and finally received $65 million in compensation in the form of money.

Cameron and the Taylor brothers decided to make money and regenerate money! how

investment

Their words and deeds are consistent, and they established the capital of Winklevoss:

In the portfolio column of Winklevoss Capital website, besides the famous companies such as angellist and meundies, Bitcoin and Ethereum are also impressive.

What happened?

Brothers cooperate to break the gold "coin"

In other words, the venture capital companies of the two brothers invested in bitinstant, a bitcoin payment processing platform, as early as 20 1 1. Through this platform, users can use bitcoin to pay in 700,000 stores in the United States, including Wal-Mart and walgreen.

As a bitcoin trading platform, bitinstant developed very rapidly at first, and the transaction volume doubled in just a few months in 20 13 years. However, the good times did not last long. In July of the same year, more than 65,438+07,000 users sued the company for failing to provide services and making false statements. Later, the company's CEO, Charlie shrem, was arrested on suspicion of money laundering for trading bitcoin with the black market trading website Silk Road. Bitinstant eventually went bankrupt, and the two brothers lost everything.

Although the first close contact with the bitcoin world ended in failure, indomitable brothers believe that the road to bitcoin is long.

In 20 13, the two brothers revealed that they bought 210/0000000 bitcoins for1000000 dollars, which became "millions of dollars". They stored bitcoin wallets on multiple USB flash drives and put them in safes in three cities. In order to avoid repeating the mistake of being trapped by a villain, the two brothers decided to "put money and trust on the mathematical framework" this time to avoid policy changes and human errors.

At first, after learning the news, the media was booed. The Huffington Post commented that the money spent by these two people is really terrible for "hackers" who advocate network freedom.

Many people who eat melons who don't know Bitcoin have also said that they can't spend money with the Winklevoss brothers.

However, I never thought that the price of Bitcoin would soar like a rocket. The two brothers have been saving money, but they have not sold it, and finally became the first batch of bitcoin billionaires in the world.

The two brothers were asked on various occasions whether Bitcoin was a bigger "bubble".

"no"

These two people think that the price of Bitcoin rose from $40 to100,500,1000,4000, until it exceeded 10000. Why has it been growing? Those who think bitcoin is a bubble have never studied bitcoin seriously at all.

They compare bitcoin with gold and think it is a financial asset. But at the same time, Bitcoin is not an ordinary financial asset. Its value is based on everyone's consensus on it, not a specific institution or individual can decide.

In fact, Bitcoin is a bit like Facebook, which was "pitted" in those years: both products are built on the community. No wonder the two brothers also compare Facebook: if only one person plays on Facebook, it is meaningless; Only when more and more people participate in it and everyone trusts it will the network become valuable.

Simply put, if there is no second person in the world who uses a mobile phone, my mobile phone will be useless. Therefore, the increase and trust of participants is very important in the development of Bitcoin.

The two brothers believe that time will tell. One day, people who eat melons will nod and say: virtual currency is really good!

I didn't expect this day to come soon.

Before 2065438+September 2007, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon pointed out in an interview that "Bitcoin is a scam" and "people who buy Bitcoin are idiots". For these remarks, the two brothers said: How dare you bet on Bitcoin in JPMorgan Chase!

Just say that you don't practice fake tricks, but you don't accept the battle!

Just after Jamie spoke, his JPMorgan Chase company released a trading system based on blockchain. Jamie recently tweeted that he regretted shouting these remarks, which really slapped himself in the face.

After so many years, the two brothers finally pulled back a game with Bitcoin!

Gemini, create another miracle?

The two brothers not only buy coins, but also toss about projects related to coins.

20 14 brothers released Winkdex- bitcoin price index platform. Through the data of seven major exchanges in the United States, Winkdex's platform provides real-time currency prices to buyers.

Although this price index platform works well, the two brothers still want to set up another trading platform.

20 15, 10 In June, the two brothers launched their own bitcoin trading platform Gemini (Gemini) in the UK, which was subsequently supported by the Financial Services Department of new york. Their venture capital company has become their backing. No, their bitcoin, to be exact!

At the same time, Gemini became the first platform to trade Ethereum. This also means that the platforms of the two brothers have surpassed the concept of Bitcoin and entered the blockchain field.

Soon, because Canadian bitcoin transactions did not require the permission of the regulatory authorities, Gemini began its overseas expansion plan by opening transactions in Canada.

Subsequently, Gemini started business in Hong Kong and Singapore. As part of its global expansion plan, Asia is highly valued by the two brothers.

However, despite the aura of the two brothers, the transaction volume of Gemini platform is far lower than that of its competitors Bitfinx and Bitcoin base, and the security of the platform is also worrying.

Last year1October 28th, 165438+, the Gemini platform was paralyzed for several hours. The note "504 Gateway Timeout" came into view. Since then, Gemini has posted a blog saying: This kind of thing is really inevitable. We can't guarantee when it will be next time. But we will strive to improve the reliability of the platform in the future.

No one can do anything with his hands spread out.

The security of trading platform has always been a headache. The lessons of the past are not without. Bitstamp, a British bitcoin trading platform, was hacked and $5 million worth of virtual currency was stolen. At that time, Mentougou suddenly closed down, causing countless coin buyers on its platform to cry in the toilet many times. The lesson of blood made the two brothers dare not neglect the safety of the platform.

It seems that Gemini will make great achievements, and the Winklevoss brothers will work harder.

It's not easy for Winklevoss Brothers to "pit" bitcoin from a small company to a "pit" way. However, although they started early and took the lead in making cryptocurrencies, just this year, Xiaozha said in his New Year's resolution that he would also start studying cryptocurrencies.

The two brothers broke up with Xiaozha because of Facebook. Will they tear it again this time?

The people who eat melons are waiting to see the play again!

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