[Blockchain Today Reporter Ji-eun Lee] While Elon Musk announced his support for Dogecoin, Mexico’s rich man Ricardo Salinas Pliego is attracting attention as he supports Bitcoin.
Salinas, who has 840,000 followers, added a bitcoin hashtag to her Twitter account on the 7th (local time). On this day, Bitcoin recorded 40,000 dollars in 23 days.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego is the head of the Grupo Salinas group and is considered one of the top three in Mexico. His net worth is valued at over $13 billion.
In December of last year, Salinas said it had bought Bitcoin for the first time in 2013 for $200 and sold it for $17,000 when the price of Bitcoin soared in 2017. Salinas praised cryptocurrency as “the best investment ever.”
In November of last year, Salinas said that 10% of its’current asset portfolio’ was invested in Bitcoin. In December and January, after Salinas’ investment, the price of Bitcoin has more than doubled. Salinas reportedly has no plans to sell Bitcoin for at least five years.
People who promote cryptocurrency through social network services are not limited to Salinas. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, recently supported Dogecoin. Recently, there was an opinion that there is a relationship between the activity of Reddit investors and traders trying to obtain the price difference of Dogecoin and Elon Musk’s Twitter activity. Recently, the price of Dogecoin has risen by about 600% in 30 days.
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