Sideways: Masters of the bitcoin universe

The search is on for masters of the bitcoin universe to rival the bond traders who appalled and fascinated the public in the 1980s.

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The Winklevoss twins are the highest profile bitcoin investors, largely because of their role as figures of fun in the movie ‘The Social Network’ about the foundation of Facebook, where they were mockingly known as the Winklevii. They have become the faces of bitcoin investment because they have a widely known redemption story based on early adoption of the cryptocurrency. The twins – Cameron and Tyler – sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that he stole the idea for the social network from a similar system developed when they were at Harvard.

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