{"id":172921,"date":"2021-02-07T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/billionaires-pushing-crypto-mexicos-third-richest-person-changes-twitter-bio-to-include-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2021-02-07T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:00:00","slug":"billionaires-pushing-crypto-mexicos-third-richest-person-changes-twitter-bio-to-include-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/billionaires-pushing-crypto-mexicos-third-richest-person-changes-twitter-bio-to-include-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"# Billionaires pushing crypto: Mexico\u2019s third-richest person changes Twitter bio to include Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Billionaires pushing crypto: Mexico\u2019s third-richest person changes <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> bio to include Bitcoin <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDIvMjI3MGZmMWQtMjgxYi00ZmU3LTg5NTMtOTU1MWZmNDFlMmQ3LmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>Ricardo Salinas Pliego, chairman at conglomerate Grupo Salinas and Mexico\u2019s third richest person, is plugging Bitcoin on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire with an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/america\/mexico\/2021\/01\/08\/carlos-slim-salinas-pliego-y-mas-quien-es-quien-entre-los-millonarios-de-mexico\/\">estimated<\/a> net worth of more than $13 billion as of January changed his Twitter bio over the weekend to include the Bitcoin (BTC) hashtag. Crypto Twitter users and some of Salinas&#8217; more than 840,000 followers reported noticing the change Saturday around the time the price of the crypto asset surged to more than $40,000 for the first time in 23 days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RicardoBSalinas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RicardoBSalinas<\/a> to the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bitcoin<\/a> community. Let&#8217;s join the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bitcoin<\/a> movement! <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/an9wymsKE7\">pic.twitter.com\/an9wymsKE7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jay_OKEX_CEO (@JayHao8) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayHao8\/status\/1358410449675448320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Speaking to Cointelegraph in December, Salinas revealed he had first purchased Bitcoin at $200 in 2013, later selling during the 2017 bull run when the price reached the $17,000s. He described the crypto asset as his \u201cbest investment ever.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In November, Salinas said that 10% of his \u201cliquid portfolio\u201d is invested in BTC, with the remaining \u201cin precious metals miners.\u201d The 65-year-old billionaire bought in before the price of Bitcoin surged to new all-time highs in December and January, more than doubling his investment. He has said he isn\u2019t planning on selling off any crypto holdings for at least five years.<\/p>\n<p>Salinas is not the only billionaire using social media to push crypto recently. Today SpaceX CEO Elon Musk continued his push of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE). Musk has targeted DOGE users in recent weeks as the token became entangled in a pump-and-dump effort by Reddit traders and investors. The price of DOGE has risen almost 600% in the last 30 days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The future currency of Earth<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1357914696645414913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the time of publication, the price of Bitcoin is $38,078, having dropped more than 5% in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The billionaire with an estimated net worth of more than $13 billion as of January changed his Twitter bio over the weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDIvMjI3MGZmMWQtMjgxYi00ZmU3LTg5NTMtOTU1MWZmNDFlMmQ3LmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74937,117,70504,4976,10401],"class_list":["post-172921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-business","tag-mexico","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}