100,000 BTC !!!!!! Really that much. That's way too much money. I should have been inspired by this twin but I'm jealous. By the way, they look very much similar, identical twins  . Congratulations on their success.

Actually, they received about 65 million dollars in the settlement and invested about 11 million dollars into Bitcoin.  They've only invested a relatively small portion of their earnings.

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We're purely talking about the coins that they are known to have bought in early 2013.

The coins which are believed to be owned by satoshi have not been moved, and we have no reason to believe that the Winklevoss twins are satoshi.

It is important to note though - if satoshi is one person, then they most likely became a billionaire long before these two did.

Read the summary of the book "Digital Gold" Nathaniel Popper is the chronology of events from the very beginning of the creation of bitcoin! there figures besides twins of Winklevoss there are many more entrepreneurs and developers who have a fortune not less than twins, for example, Wences Casares, CEO of the cryptowallet Xaro and a member of the board of directors of PayPal

Yes probably they are the richest person owns bitcoin maybe NBI from U.S is holding thousands of bitcoin they can sell it anytime several agents told me about this

I am really happy that they are the first Billionaires from Bitcoin. But I really doubt that they have the most Bitcoins. Satoshi still maitains the biggest wallet probably, but the big question is if he is still alive or if not does someone has the private keys to the wallet??

11 million investment that early in bitcoin shows quite the level of courage. I struggled having the balls for a couple of hundred .

Is it not the same guys that claim that they created bitcoin but they were not taken seriously by the community. If they the first billionaires, then good for them but if by multiplying the amount of the alleged coins they own with the value today and then say they worth a billion dollars, then that would be wrong because there is no evidence to proof that they actually have that amount, there is also no way to  determine if they have not sold a large chunk of the bitcoin they have, and they would only worth that amount, if they sell today which is obviously what they are not doing. In short, they are unrealized billionaires and can turn to millionaires before the end of the week.

Without doubt the creator of bitcoins is bound to be the richest bitcoin holder ever, there is no way that he wouldn't have saved some bitcoins for himself, if he has made all these people billionaires, it would be really ironic if he isn't a billionaire himself.

I like this. Its nice to see stories in the media about bitcoin that illustrate it as something other than a safe haven for tax evaders, illicit drug users, terrorists and criminals. Crypto needs more success stories like this to show its potential to humanity and the innovation it can offer over traditional assets such as precious metals or fiat. Bitcoin has a lot to offer the world, stories like this which grasp peoples imagination and illustrate some of its potential are great for crypto.

The Winklevoss Twins seem like decent celebrities. In the future they could become "ambassadors of bitcoin". Maybe two of the better poster boys for crypto we've seen thus far.

Ross Ulbricht, had he not been caught. But you can add the FBI to the list of richest Bitcoin holders instead :p



The blockchain richlist is a rather useless metric, unfortunately. Lots of big wallets around that simply belong to major exchanges.