From Elon Musk to Maisie Williams. Who among celebrities holds Bitcoin?

Celebrities are the people who can afford everything they want. They surround themselves with the most expensive things, proving their rich status, buy huge mansions with pools and gardens, or even go further, owning the whole islands. If you are wealthy and dispose of all you need, the only thing you would definitely want is to invest in something that will bring in the future more money. 

What is likely to be the best investment in 2021? Cryptocurrency, of course! Following trends, popular people take part in auctions and learn trading strategies to buy and gain digital assets. Moreover, they pamper their kids by offering them crypto assets, especially Bitcoin. 

Jack Dorsey, Mike Tyson, Snoop Dogg… Who else among celebrities invested in Bitcoin? We’ve made for you a list of 3 prominent personalities who hold Bitcoin. Read on to discover their success stories and thoughts concerning digital assets!

Richard Branson

Career

Sir Branson is a famous investor, business magnate, and the author of the motivational book ‘Screw it, let’s do it’. He is known for launching the Virgin Atlantic Group controlling over 400 companies in different industries. World-known billionaire dropped out of his school at 16 and started his career by founding the publication ‘Student.’ Later on, he started a mail-order record business, ‘Virgin’, that at the beginning didn’t show a big success. However, some years later, the company has achieved a significant expansion. 

Branson’s recording studio made musical records for such bands as Sex Pistols and Rolling Stones. And guess what? The billionaire didn’t limit himself with this business and decided to develop the Virgin Atlantic airline and Virginia Megastores. Struggling with financial problems, Richard sold his company for $1 bln. 

However, just a few years ago, he founded a second record company V2 and Virgin Radio. The company included a train company, a mobile phone company, Hard Rock Hotel, cruise ships, and a space-tourism. Together with the Scale Composites, he has launched a suborbital spaceplane.  

Bitcoin Investments

In fact, the billionaire has invested $30 mln in a BTC payment service company, joining it to the Virginia group. Hence, the company owner has also confirmed to accept Bitcoins or Bitcoin Cash as a payment method in Virgin Galactic. No one knows how much BTC he owns; however, he always states that digital assets represent a good investment during his interviews.

 Elon Musk

Career 

Elon Musk is a prominent founder of companies PayPal, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX. Together with his brother Kimbal, in 1995, he launched his first business – Zip2 Corporation, which worked on the elaboration of an online city guide. In 1999, the company was sold for $307 mln to found X.com, known as the payment system PayPal. Some years later, Musk sold this business to eBay for $1.5 bln.

2003 was marked with the opening of Tesla Motors. The aim of the company was to design solar batteries and powerful mass-market electric vehicles. Their first car was Roadster that could accelerate 0-60 mph just in 4 seconds. In 2010, Tesla Motors cooperated with Toyota. Among the most famous models of the cars manufactured by Tesla Motors are: Model S, Model Y, and Tesla Semi.

Passioned with space explorations, Elon launched SpaceX, a company that manufactures spacecraft for space travelings. As well, the company elaborated a Falcon 9, known all over the world space-exploring rocket. In 2017, Musk came up with the idea of cargo to colonize Mars. Two years ago, 60 satellites (Starlink) were sent into the open space in order to provide Internet service. 

Another company Elon headed in 2016 was Solar City, which invents products ameliorating the way energy is generated.

Bitcoin investments

Maybe, Elon is the most vocal in the media concerning crypto. The richest man in the world vividly supports Bitcoin, and since 2021 his company Tesla accepts BTC as a payment method. What is more, Tesla Motors owns $1.5 bln in Bitcoins. 

According to the rumors, Elon personally possesses 0.25 BTC, which he received as a gift from his friend.

Maisie Williams 

Career 

Maisie (Margaret Constance) is a young British actress who gained popularity for starring in Game of Thrones as Arya Stark. The girl has been staring in the series 2011-2019. She was nominated for many awards, among which she received the Portal Award for Best Supporting Actress and Best Young Actress. As well, Maisie starred in the BBC series The Secret of Crickley Hall as Loren Caleigh. 

In 2014, Maisie took part in the film We are monsters and The Falling. In 2015, Williams was a guest star in 2 episodes of Doctor Who. In 2018, she turned in The New Mutants, a horror, released by Disney studio.

Her career isn’t limited to just TV series and films. In 2018, the young girl launched the Daisie, social media app. It represents a useful tool for creative people who want to share their works. Who knows, maybe her next app will be a Bitcoin exchange mobile app.

Currently, the actress supports anti-bullying and environmental organizations, giving a part of her income for charity, and continues starring web series Gen:Lock.  

Bitcoin investments

The first time when Williams bought Bitcoin was in November 2020. 900 000 followers on Twitter urged Maisie to plunge into the cryptocurrency world in response to her tweet ‘go long on Bitcoin’. She listened to the advice of those who were for and against Bitcoin, but did her own thing and got some BTC. Since then, the price went up four times!

In a nutshell

All things considered, it appears that Bitcoin fever permanently continues to move across the world. Not only major companies but also famous people invest in digital assets and advise to follow the Bitcoin trend. 

Prominent people mentioned in our article are not the only ones who own Bitcoin.

No one knows whether BTC is supposed to follow the steps of Tulipmania or not. However, the most influential celebrities in the world see value in cryptocurrency.