{"id":34744,"date":"2021-01-14T18:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34744"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:01:53","slug":"winklevoss-twins-discuss-gemini-ipo-possibility-with-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/winklevoss-twins-discuss-gemini-ipo-possibility-with-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Winklevoss twins discuss Gemini IPO possibility with Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Winklevoss brothers, founders of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-01-14\/winklevoss-twins-consider-taking-gemini-crypto-exchange-public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated<\/a> to Bloomberg that they are considering the possibility of a public offering of their company.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are definitely considering this and doing everything to have such an opportunity. We are watching the market, and we are having internal discussions about the timeliness of such a move,&#8221; Cameron Winklevoss said in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Gemini Trust Co business, founded in New York in 2014, includes a cryptocurrency exchange and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/gemini-custody-assets-surpass-10-billion\">custodial service<\/a>. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg Billionaires Index<\/a>, the fortune of each brother is about $2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the billionaires repeatedly forecasted the rise of Bitcoin&#8217;s price to $500,000, describing it as the only long-term hedge against inflation.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of a public offering, direct listing, or reverse takeover, the Winklevosses would have to disclose their holdings in digital currencies, Bloomberg noted.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the institutional platform for trading bitcoin derivatives Bakkt confirmed that it would go public as a result of the acquisition of VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>The largest American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase filed for an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winklevoss brothers, founders of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, told Bloomberg that they are considering a possible public offering of their company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[719,1211,1140],"class_list":["post-34744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-gemini","tag-stock-market","tag-winklevoss-twins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"35","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34746,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744\/revisions\/34746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}