The first "Bitcoin billionaires" broke up with Winklebos who won 5 billion yen in litigation with Facebook

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The market price of the virtual currency Bitcoin (bit coin) has continued to grow to the right, despite fine up and down movements, and if it keeps bit coins from a few years ago, the value is multiplied by dozens of times, tens of times It is also inflating. The first Winklebos brothers who became "bit coin bilionaire" by this move are those who fought a court battle with Mr. Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook's idea.

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The brothers of Tyler · Winklebos and Cameron · Winklebos are twins known as businessmen since school days, and they are also the originators of Harvard Community site "Harvard Connection" for Harvard University student community site. Zuckerberg made "Facebook" instead of "Harvard Connection" with Mark Zuckerberg who asked for cooperation in constructing the site. Winklebos brothers filed a lawsuit that Zuckerberg stole the idea and then settled. It is said that the money earned by the Winklebos brothers in this settlement is at least 65 million dollars (about 5.1 billion yen). The flow of the movie "Social networkBut it was drawn.

Winklebos brothers said that in June 2012 "investing in bit coins is much better than investing in gold"Invested 11 million dollars (about 880 million yen at that time rate) in bit coin.

As in 2015, "If the bit coin is regarded as an asset like gold or gold, the market capitalization may be several trillion dollar scale," but as expected, as of 2017 The price of bit coins rose to 100 times compared to five years ago. Winklebos brothers' bit coin assets surpassed $ 1 billion (about 110 billion yen) and are now being reported as "Bitcoin Billionaire" for the first time.

Brother Winklebos said that he has not put out any bit coins he owns so far, so I am concerned about the trend of what to do with bit coins in the future.