Dave Portnoy pumps Bitcoin, would have made more money in Ethereum
Barstool Sports' "El Presidente" is doing alright with his Bitcoin investment by our math. But he would have done more than twice as well investing his $1 million in ETH.
“I’m 7 figures deep now in this stuff,” he tweeted. This was after posting a video in which Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss personally visited Portnoy at his summer place in Nantucket and schooled “El Presidente” on some of the vagaries of Bitcoin. Portnoy, who had been a skeptic, seemed to become a believer, though he admitted he still didn’t understand a word of what the Winklevii were saying.
In any event, let’s do the math, shall we? Forget for the moment that the video was pre-recorded and we don't really know at what price he actually bought his million bucks worth of Bitcoin (or if even bought it at all.) After he posted the video yesterday evening, Bitcoin’s price jumped from $11,529 to a peak of $12,045—an increase of 4.45%, according to data from metrics site CoinMarketCap.
That means that had Portnoy bought in at $11,529, the newly crowned Baron of Bitcoin would have made $44,757 overnight—assuming that he sold it, which is an unlikely assumption. Hardly anyone sells Bitcoin and besides, Portnoy is pushing for Bitcoin to stay above $12,000. Well above $12,000.
It’s certainly possible. As “Davey Day Trader,” Portnoy—followed by 1.7 million people on Twitter alone—is generally assumed to be something of a market maker.
Still, had Portnoy put his million clams into ETH, he would have made more than 2X what he made on BTC.
ETH’s price boomed from about $397 to a peak of $443, an increase of 11.6% during the same 24-hour period. That means that the Baron would have made about $116,000 overnight.
Barstool Sports president Dave “El Presidente” Portnoy is well known for being outspoken and often abrasive—and over the last day he’s turned his attention to a new subject: Bitcoin.
In recent months, Portnoy has been sharing regular Davey Day Trader Global (DDTG) live streams in which he shares perspectives on his investments and generates significant social media engagement in the process.
Yesterday morning, Portnoy began talking more and more about Bitcoin, jokingly asking if he needed “Bitco...
But it’s lucky that Portnoy—who spent a quarter of a million during his time with the twins—didn’t get too caught up in the Winklevii’s discussion of Chainlink: After a 62% pump this week, LINK actually had the temerity to fall 7.2%, from $18.24 to $16.93.
So if Portnoy had put all his cash into LINK, he’d have lost almost $80,000. (It’s worth noting that the twins had urged caution: “You can put 10% in Chainlink, 20%; I wouldn’t put 50% [in it],” said, er, either Cameron or Tyler.
Though Portnoy made money overnight in our little FAMC™ thought experiment, he confessed after the Winklevoss twins had left: “I literally have no idea what Bitcoin is.” But ignorance is no issue in crypto, which welcomes all.
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