The emergence of cryptocurrency promises the most likely shift in modern history after the Industrial Revolution.
Cryptocurrencies are based on coding techniques that regulate the launch of new units, check the transfer of funds, and operate independently of any central bank.
Bitcoin is currently breaking all barriers and is just around the corner from winning acceptance around the world as more stores and companies start accepting them as a method of payment.
Insider Monkey offered the most well-known investors in Bitcoin led by Tim Draper and the Winklevoss brothers.
Tim Draper
Tim Draper is the largest bit interested in Bitcoin in the American investor community, a 59-year-old billionaire.
Draper rose to prominence in 2014 when he won an auction organized by the US Customs authorities to sell currencies in formation that had been confiscated from the blocked Silk Road online marketplace.
Draper bought all of the auction at 30 thousand coins in composition, and the price of one currency at the time was 645 dollars, and the price today exceeds four thousand dollars.
One estimate indicates that Draper has raised more than $ 16 million in investment in bitcoin to date.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss became famous in 2004 when they filed a lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg accusing him of stealing the idea of the social network from their site (Connect U), and today they became one of the most famous investors in bitcoin.
In 2013, the Winklevoss brothers, who are now well-known entrepreneurs on the Internet, claimed that they owned one per cent of all bitcoins in the world at the time.
Tyler Winklevoss said last year that bitcoin was "better than gold" and was "the largest social network ever".
In 2015, the two created Gemini, the first US exchange to be licensed in digital currency trading.
Bary Silbert
- Investor Barry Silbert has been investing in cryptocurrencies for years and in December 2014 Secondbert's SecondMarket Corporation won about 48k training in the second round of the US Customs ’auction.
The price of bitcoin in that year was $ 350 per digital currency.
Charlie Shrem
- Charlie Shreim is a pioneer in the world of bitcoin, and he started investing in him when he was at the university in 2011, and because he was frustrated by the long process of buying and selling bitcoin, he founded Shreem (BitInstant), an easy-to-use platform that allows individuals to buy and sell bitcoin.
The PetInstant project received a support from the investor Roger Fere of $ 125,000 and greater support of $ 1.5 million from a group of investors led by the Winklevoss brothers.
Marc Andreessen
Mark Anderson is a well-known internet investor and entrepreneur behind two of the first internet browsers, Netscape, Mosaic and Netscape.
In 2014 Andersen said in an interview that in 20 years people would talk about bitcoin just as we are talking about the Internet today.
Andersen Horowitz, the 46-year-old man, invested more than $ 227 million in start-up companies linked to bitcoin as of July 2015.
Mike Novogratz
- Billionaire Mike Novogratz, a hedge fund manager and director of Fortress Investment Group, said in April that he was investing 10 percent of his wealth in bitcoin.
The man said that bitcoin was the "best investment" in his life and he expected in 2013 that the price of bitcoin would rise.