Software giant Atlassian’s co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has hinted he has been a long-term holder of Bitcoin.
In a serial of tweets Monday, the billionaire articulation caput of the Australian company noted how $10,000 worth of BTC bought inwards 2010 was straightaway worth to a greater extent than or less $146 mln.
Contrasted amongst gilded or USD holdings, he suggests, Bitcoin is a clear winner.
“...My BTC bet is paying out well. Theory? ‘It volition live on worth a lot, or zero.’ Much similar Equus caballus racing. Not similar investing,” he wrote.
Cannon-Brookes’ “theory” is reminiscent of early on Bitcoin days, when pioneering investors took on considerably higher lead chances when buying cryptocurrencies inwards bulk.
As local tidings rootage Sydney Morning Herald reports, it remains unknown what the entrepreneur’s holdings inwards Bitcoin are, how long he has held them as well as whether he is planning whatsoever uses for the funds other than storage equally a personal investment.
In a farther tweet, mayhap intended inwards an ironic light, Cannon-Brookes noted that an “ounce” of Bitcoin is worth to a greater extent than than an ounce of gold.
This tidings is non new, Cointelegraph having reported on the showtime fourth dimension the Bitcoin gilded barrier achieved parity before this year.
What an “ounce” of Bitcoin would consist of meanwhile is opened upward to interpretation.