{2018-01-18} Winklevoss twins become ex-billionaires

[veleten]

they don't care,if the columnist foolowed the topic he was writing about
he would have known that Winklewoss brothers had stated bublicly,not once too
they would never sell bitcoins even if they hit 380.000$ + :

https://www.coinspeaker.com/2017/12/27/im-not-sure-wed-even-sell-bitcoins-380950-says-tyler-winklevoss/

so when you are planning long term,you should not care for the short term volatility
and yeah they are smart enouth to become billionaires,think they are smart enough to not sell at 12.000  

[Lmaooo]

How can these people know how much money the Winklevoss twins have, besides their investments in Bitcoin. Do they even

know how much bitcoins these guys has bought? You cannot lose money, if you did not sell those bitcoins and besides.. the

price has gone up, since this clickbait article was published. 

At least Winklevoss Twins are Ex-billionaires. They even taste the breath of being Billionaires. what about the journalist who wrote this bullshit article? He might be struggling with life. By the way, it seems like Winklevoss Twins are back to being a billionaires.

[Beclecam]

I have some btc , i was very happy when the price was $20.000 but now price is very low , noone is happy.

bitcoin will cost more than $ 2000

[AK47-]

Only for awhile tho. Sooner or later more countires will adopt BTC increasing its price. And solutions to work for transaction time, block size and transaction fees are in works. Lightening network nodes testing is going well so far, segwit adoption getting traction as well. Once they work out, and BTC mining reduces to 6.25 next year. BTC will see a sure shot hike of 50% in price.

[veleten]

Only for awhile tho. Sooner or later more countires will adopt BTC increasing its price. And solutions to work for transaction time, block size and transaction fees are in works. Lightening network nodes testing is going well so far, segwit adoption getting traction as well. Once they work out, and BTC mining reduces to 6.25 next year. BTC will see a sure shot hike of 50% in price.

the block reward decrease is not the main reason for an alleged (and expected) price rise
to me it is pretty obvious that the negative news surrounding bitcoin and crypta in general
are too well timed to be a coincedence,the price had to be driven down after the crazy 20.000$ mark has been reached
and it is down now,dancing around 11.000$
segwit adoption is another fairy tale,only 12% of transactions are Segwit at the moment,it may take another 2-3 years to adopt fully if ever
Lightning network same,so if the price is going up it is not due to the tweaks in the code,but due to supply/demand or
the market being played by the powers we don't see,same as with the oil,gold prices etc.
these are too important to let some "free market" to decide
again it is just my IMHO and the reality could be much simpler and less interesting

[stompix]

How can these people know how much money the Winklevoss twins have, besides their investments in Bitcoin. Do they even
know how much bitcoins these guys has bought? You cannot lose money, if you did not sell those bitcoins and besides.. the
price has gone up, since this clickbait article was published.  

Check the front page of the newspaper:

Obama's secret picture that could have cost him the presidency
Do you recognise the handwriting in this racist hate mail about mixed-race boy?
Nutella riots after supermarket slashes price by 70 per cent
Terror hits Spalding after cabbage cracks BMW windscreen

That's not a newspaper...that's a garbage bin.

As for the real number of coins they have, there is only one real source:

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/as-big-investors-emerge-bitcoin-gets-ready-for-its-close-up/

The Winklevii, as they are known, have amassed since last summer what appears to be one of the single largest portfolios of the digital money, whose wild gyrations have Silicon Valley and Wall Street talking. The twins, the first prominent figures in the largely anonymous bitcoin world to publicly disclose a big stake, say they own nearly $11 million worth.

Or at least $11 million as of Thursday morning — when trading was temporarily suspended after the latest and largest flash crash left a single bitcoin worth about $120 and the whole market worth $1.3 billion. At one point, the price had plummeted 60 percent.

So, based on their own numbers they do have around 100k coins.

[Qartersa]

Another non-sense article. The twin have so much money that they don't care if bitcoin goes to a market crash. They are bag holders on if and I doubt that they will dump it soon. LOL. They pitch that they become billionaires when bitcoin peaks at $19,000 then suddenly brush it off when it goes down. Do they really look at everyone's wallet and see who becomes millionaire or billionaire? I'm waiting for another articles saying that they become billionaires again when bitcoin surpasses $20,000 this year. LOL. And not only the twins have been affected by all of this bloodbath in the last couple of days, but all investors. Oh well, everyone is riding the popularity of bitcoin, every clicks, every read they got is money for those social media outlet now.

Definitely! These people have always wanted to influence the market hence they keep writing about the affluent's downfall due to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies alike so as to make their way to Bitcoin stealthily with whatever little money they have. Surely they just want to join in the bandwagon, just that they have insufficient means at the moment. Well, to be quite accurate as we speak of others, it might be they have the means to but they are not willing to spend so much bucks in it because they are still in the process of testing waters. Whatever the reasons of these people are, know that they have their own agenda and I hope we do not fall into their own made up or concocted stories for their own benefit. Let us all be wise about what we are reading about.