On Thursday (August 13), Dave Portnoy, the founder and president of Barstools Sports, who had invited the Winklevoss twins to visit his office and show him how to buy Bitcoin, got his wish.
In a video Portnoy published on Twitter on August 4, he admitted that although he had some time ago bought Bitcoin, he had since then lost access to his wallet.
I’m officially inviting the Winklevi twins to my office to explain bitcoin to me. Have to wear the rowing outfits though. #DDTG pic.twitter.com/owQr0aZVdn
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) August 4, 2020
In the video attached to this tweet, Portnoy also mentioned that he does not understand Bitcoin and that he wanted the Winklevoss twins, who are the founders of the Gemini digital asset exchange, to come to his office and explain it to him.
To show that he was serious about investing in Bitcoin, Portnoy tweeted in jest:
Let’s do it. I want to buy all the bitcoins. https://t.co/37voOpKXPi
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) August 4, 2020
What made Portnoy’s interest in Bitcoin significant is that Portnoy is the the leader of an army of day traders on U.S. trading platform Robinhood and that his promotion of Bitcoin could help to increase the adoption of Bitcoin by his over 1.7 million Twitter followers, many of whom are U.S. millennials.
Well, at 17:45 UTC (or 13:45 Eastern Time) on Thursday, Portnoy tweeted that he is “7 figures deep now in this stuff” (by which he presumably means Bitcoin and/or other major cryptoassets such as Ether):
#DDTG MEETS #BITCOIN FULL VIDEO COMING AT 330. I’m 7 figures deep now in this stuff @tylerwinklevoss @winklevoss pic.twitter.com/Ko9cmDPUNa
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) August 13, 2020
A few minutes later, Tyler Winklevoss, who is Co-Founder and CEO of crypto exchange Gemini, tweeted that he enjoyed his meeting with Portnoy and next time would encourage him to buy some LINK tokens.
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