This year seems to have been one of the most significant years yet for bitcoin (BTC) – with prices growing. A growing number of high-profile investors and celebrities watching to get onboard as publically as plausible – via the medium of Twitter.
The freshest to take to Twitter to announce they have boarded the crypto gravy train is Ricardo Salinas Pliego. He’s the founder of the Grupo Salinas business empire, a dear associate of the country’s president, and the owner of an approximated USD 13.2bn fortune.
Salinas appears to have come out as a veritable bitcoin evangelist in a series of tweets, stating to his more than 808,000 followers that he had invested 10% of his ‘liquid portfolio” in BTC.
In one tweet, which he has since pinned, he presented a person’s video in an unnamed Latin American country giving away sacks full of cash. Salinas added,
“To start with #bitcoin, I am sharing a video taken in a Latin [American] country where banks throw money away (paper money is worth nothing). That is why it is always good to diversify your investment portfolio.”
In a separate tweet, Salinas suggested a book about bitcoin named El Patron Bitcoin (subtitled The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banks) by Saifedean Ammous.
There has been an interesting plot twist in the crypto Game of Thrones sparked on Twitter by the actress Maisie Williams (who played Arya Stark in the drama series).
Yesterday, it was stated that Williams had asked her 2.7 million followers if they thought she should “go long on bitcoin.”
A total of 902,304 people voted in response to her question, with 53.4% voting “no” – and 46.6% advising her to take the plunge.
But subverting the audience’s expectations was always the name of the game for GOT. So Williams took a page out of the drama’s book – by flying in the face of public opinion and buying BTC anyway.
She posted a picture of a remorseful-looking Shrek, writing,
“Thank you for the advice. I bought some anyway.”
Crypto advocates on Twitter are predictably approved, with some even upping their meme game for the occasion.
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