Since the beginning of the creation of Bitcoin, people have heavily invested their time and money into the currency. Below are a few people who have done so and became extremely successful. 

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The Winklevoss Twins 

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The Winklevoss Twins are two entrepreneur businessmen who competed at the Olympics for rowing . Originally the two men tried to take ownership of Facebook but failed. After their failure the twins invested heavily into Bitcoin hoping to make a profit. In 2013 they spent 13 million dollars alone in the currency.

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Tim Draper

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Tim Draper is a venture capitalist who's worth billions because of his investments in Skype. Although he made headlines when he invested his money into 30,000 bitcoins in 2014 which is worth about 171 million dollars today.

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Tony Gallippi 

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Tony Gallippi is the co-founder of Bitpay which is the world's largest bitcoin processor. He hasn't disclosed his current investments in the crypto-currency, but it is estimated to be around 20 million dollars.