The curious twins who bet big on bitcoin

The Winklevoss twins may have lost out on Facebook, but they have won big on bitcoin.

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The Winklevoss twins: crypto-billionaires
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When America's "favourite pair of oar-bearing, Lacoste-wearing, jealous twins" announced in 2011 that they were dropping their long-running court case against Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, they seemed destined to become a colourful footnote in the group's history, says Wired. Immortalised in the film The Social Network as the "Winklevii", the Waspish Olympic oarsmen who claimed to be the rightful founders of Facebook were parodied in an episode of The Simpsons called The D'oh-cial Network and later appeared as a $1,600 question on the quiz show Jeopardy!

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