How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune<br />“Gemini is an underappreciated exchange, one of the few exchanges I trust as a custodian,”<br />said Ari Paul, a managing partner at the virtual currency hedge fund BlockTower Capital.<br />Cameron, the left-handed Winklevoss brother, and Tyler, the right-handed one, followed<br />that with a risky bet: They used money from a $65 million settlement with Mr. Zuckerberg to load up on Bitcoin.<br />The brothers are also majority owners of the virtual currency exchange they founded, Gemini, which most likely<br />takes their joint holdings to a value well over $2 billion, or enough to make each of them a billionaire.<br />“We still think it is probably one of the best investments in the world and will be for the decades to come,” Tyler Winklevoss said.<br />Gemini got a license from New York State regulators<br />that allows them to hold Bitcoins for regulated banks and asset managers — something essentially no other virtual currency companies can do.<br />That turned them into the first prominent virtual currency millionaires in 2013,<br />back when Bitcoin was primarily known as a currency for online drug dealers.<br />“We’ve turned that laughter and ridicule into oxygen and wind at our back,” Tyler Winklevoss said in an interview last week.
