This is true - people are likely to be more interested in maybe investing simply because they are a household name.
Yup. Similar to John McAfee.
The twins are known for:
1. Suing Mark Zuckerberg, getting $65 million.
2. [crypto-related] "Investing" "$1.5 million in seed funding of BitInstant, a bitcoin payment processor. However, in January 2014, Charlie Shrem, CEO of BitInstant, was arrested and charged with money laundering related to the Silk Road online black market investigation."--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winklevoss_twins