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Winklevoss Twins
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, American entrepreneurs and early Bitcoin investors who founded the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange. The twins gained initial fame from their legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook, and they invested a significant portion of their settlement into Bitcoin when it was trading around $10 in 2013. They became the first publicly known Bitcoin billionaires and have been prominent advocates for cryptocurrency regulation and institutional adoption.
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“The Winklevoss twins' application for a spot Bitcoin ETF was repeatedly denied by the SEC, though it helped lay the groundwork for the eventual approval of similar products years later.”