Mexico’s third-richest individual modifications Twitter bio to incorporate Bitcoin

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, chairman at conglomerate Grupo Salinas and Mexico’s third richest individual, is plugging Bitcoin on social media.

The billionaire with an estimated internet value of greater than $13 billion as of January modified his Twitter bio over the weekend to incorporate the Bitcoin (BTC) hashtag. Crypto Twitter customers and a few of Salinas’ greater than 840,000 followers reported noticing the change Saturday across the time the value of the crypto asset surged to greater than $40,000 for the primary time in 23 days.

Welcome @RicardoBSalinas to the #bitcoin neighborhood. Let’s be a part of the #bitcoin motion! pic.twitter.com/an9wymsKE7

— Jay_OKEX_CEO (@JayHao8) February 7, 2021

Chatting with Cointelegraph in December, Salinas revealed he had first bought Bitcoin at $200 in 2013, later promoting throughout the 2017 bull run when the value reached the $17,000s. He described the crypto asset as his “finest funding ever.”

In November, Salinas stated that 10% of his “liquid portfolio” is invested in BTC, with the remaining “in valuable metals miners.” The 65-year-old billionaire purchased in earlier than the value of Bitcoin surged to new all-time highs in December and January, greater than doubling his funding. He has stated he isn’t planning on promoting off any crypto holdings for at the very least 5 years.

Salinas just isn’t the one billionaire utilizing social media to push crypto just lately. Right this moment SpaceX CEO Elon Musk continued his push of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE). Musk has focused DOGE customers in current weeks because the token grew to become entangled in a pump-and-dump effort by Reddit merchants and buyers. The worth of DOGE has risen virtually 600% within the final 30 days.

The longer term foreign money of Earth

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2021

On the time of publication, the value of Bitcoin is $38,078, having dropped greater than 5% within the final 24 hours.