{"id":36016,"date":"2021-02-08T13:29:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36016"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:13:01","slug":"mexican-billionaire-posts-bitcoin-hashtag-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/mexican-billionaire-posts-bitcoin-hashtag-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican billionaire posts Bitcoin hashtag on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, one of Mexico’s wealthiest people and founder of the Grupo Salinas conglomerate, added the Bitcoin hashtag to the description of his Twitter account.<\/p>\n

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Data: Pliego’s Twitter page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The billionaire joined the ranks of wealthy supporters of the first cryptocurrency, among them MicroStrategy chief Michael Saylor and SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci.<\/p>\n

In January, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted on Twitter Bitcoin hashtag<\/a>, after which the asset rose to $38,000.<\/p>\n

In a Cointelegraph interview, Salinas Pliego said he first bought digital gold in 2013. He sold the asset for $17,000 during the 2017 bull run and called Bitcoin \u201cthe best investment of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Forbes, Salinas Pliego ranks second among Mexico’s billionaires and 106th in the world. The publication valued his wealth at $11.7 billion.<\/p>\n

By January 2021, the entrepreneur’s wealth had reached $13.3 billion, Infobae reports.<\/p>\n

Earlier, in November 2020, Salinas Pliego invested 10% of his portfolio in bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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