In brief


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Talk about opportunity cost. In January 2014, Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss bought a ticket on spaceflight company Virgin Galactic’s passenger-carrying ship for $250,000 with Bitcoin. At today’s prices, the ticket is now worth over $3 million.
And the trip still hasn’t been made.
According to a weekly report shared with Decrypt by Bitcoin wallet Luno, Winklevoss paid 312.5 BTC ($250,000) for the ticket—when Bitcoin was trading at around $800 per coin.
The price of Bitcoin is now worth $9830, making the opportunity cost of buying the tickets much greater. Over the past six years, the price of the tickets has jumped 1174%.
Tyler Winklevoss has later reportedly described the ticket purchase as his “Bitcoin Pizza moment,” comparing it to the 10,000 BTC pizza purchase in 2010, which would be worth a whopping $97.5 million today.
Despite constant delays on several occasions since 2014, Virgin Galactic has already tested its spaceplane twice, flying it to the edge of space. On the back of this, its stock prices have seen a significant increase, surging 18% last week—reaching $34 per share. Compared to 2019, the stock is up about 190% year to date.
But the trip still hasn’t happened. The project has been delayed on a number of occasions and only carried a passenger for the first time in February 2019 during a test launch. Virgin Galactic aims to start sending people to space in the second half of this year.
A blockchain real estate firm, BrickMark, has bought a property in the heart of Zurich, Switzerland, for $135 million worth of BrickMark Tokens, it announced yesterday. BrickMark tokens are based on the Ethereum blockchain platform. In an interesting twist, owners of the tokens will receive income from rent generated by the property—although BrickMark has not revealed the specifics. Dr. Alexander Koblischek, Managing Director of RFR Management GmbH, said, “We gladly accepted the Brickmark token...
The company will face some serious competition in the field of space tourism. SpaceX, founded by famous entrepreneur and engineer Elon Musk, has recently announced a partnership with Space Adventures aiming to launch private citizens into orbit by the end of 2021 or early 2022.
And it’s certainly ambitious: SpaceX’s lawyer said she would like to see 15 million SpaceX launches per year. And it could cost as low as $2 million. Tell that to Tyler Winklevoss.
Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. This week: Worrying details from Coinbase The data breach Coinbase told users and investors about last week has gotten a little more worrying. It’s not that more data has been stolen. But the company filed a disclosure with the Maine Attorney General that included a few key details that were missing from its SEC filing and blog post about the exploit. The breach occurred on December 26, 2024, and w...
The Russian Ministry of Energy is considering offering its now strictly regulated Bitcoin mining industry incentives to move to the north of the country. The move follows Russia slapping a Bitcoin mining ban on ten regions (mainly in the south) in January of this year: Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Chechnya, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. Russia to Ban Crypto Mining 'In Some Regions' Due to Electricity Shortages The ban is set to rema...
Kraken will soon offer overseas customers the ability to trade U.S.-listed stocks through the crypto exchange’s platform, the company said in a press release on Thursday. The offering, which covers more than 50 U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds, will be facilitated through a partnership with Backed, a firm specializing in tokenized securities, using the Solana blockchain to offer so-called xStocks, the company said. Tokenization refers to the process of taking real-world assets, wheth...