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12-20-2017, 11:12 PM
Bitcoin is inspiring people to do crazy, paranoid things
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As the value of cryptocurrency continues to skyrocket, so, too, does the number of crazy things people will do to protect or retrieve their sweet, sweet digital nest egg.
SEE ALSO: The top 10 tech stories of 2017 (http://mashable.com/2017/12/19/top-10-tech-stories-2017/)
Most notable are the Winklevoss Twins, that hard-luck pair of entrepreneurs who famously wound up on the outside (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/02/facebook-ipo-winklevoss-300m-fortune) of Facebook. They've gained a redemption story (http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/winklevoss-twins-bitcoin-billionaires/), though, with their new-found bitcoin fortune.*
Way back in 2012 (https://www.coinspeaker.com/2014/05/20/winklevoss-consider-bitcoin-will-encourage-financial-openness/), the twins used some of the money from their settlement with Facebook to invest in bitcoin when it was around $9 per bitcoin. Fast forward to today and they are billionaires as they — and everyone else — wait for that bubble (http://mashable.com/2017/11/29/is-bitcoin-a-bubble/) to burst. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/crazy-things-people-do-for-bitcoin/)
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As the value of cryptocurrency continues to skyrocket, so, too, does the number of crazy things people will do to protect or retrieve their sweet, sweet digital nest egg.
SEE ALSO: The top 10 tech stories of 2017 (http://mashable.com/2017/12/19/top-10-tech-stories-2017/)
Most notable are the Winklevoss Twins, that hard-luck pair of entrepreneurs who famously wound up on the outside (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/02/facebook-ipo-winklevoss-300m-fortune) of Facebook. They've gained a redemption story (http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/winklevoss-twins-bitcoin-billionaires/), though, with their new-found bitcoin fortune.*
Way back in 2012 (https://www.coinspeaker.com/2014/05/20/winklevoss-consider-bitcoin-will-encourage-financial-openness/), the twins used some of the money from their settlement with Facebook to invest in bitcoin when it was around $9 per bitcoin. Fast forward to today and they are billionaires as they — and everyone else — wait for that bubble (http://mashable.com/2017/11/29/is-bitcoin-a-bubble/) to burst. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/crazy-things-people-do-for-bitcoin/)
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