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Winklevoss Twins: "Bitcoin will be bigger than Facebook"

The Winklevoss twins are sitting on the front-line of a new generation of investors. They are, in fact, two of the most influential players in a new world of high technology investments. William Channer, the British designer and journalist, writing in The Guardian, reports a chance meeting with the twins that led to their recent expression of supreme confidence in Bitcoin. They expect that: “Bitcoin will be bigger than Facebook”. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss were holidaying on Ibiza when a friend first told them about Bitcoin. The twins had just won a $65 Million settlement from Facebook,....


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