7 Largest Well Known Bitcoin Investors In The World

Marc Andreessen

Famous investor and internet entrepreneur Marc Lowell Andreessen is one of the biggest proponents of Bitcoin in the US. The man behind two of the earliest web browsers, NetScape and Mosaic, said in an interview in 2014 that in 20 years, we will talk about Bitcoin like we talk about the internet today. Andreessen contends that very soon, law enforcement and intelligence agencies will become pro-Bitcoin, and libertarians will start opposing cryptocurrencies.

The 46-year-old investor’s capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has invested over $227 million in bitcoin-related startups as of July 2015. Two of the notable bitcoin startups in which Andreessen has invested are a bitcoin wallet company called Coinable, and TradeBlock, a bitcoin-related financial services company. In a historic piece published in the New York Times in 2014, Andreessen claimed that Bitcoin is a breakthrough in computer science, and the first practical solution to the perennial problem in the field of computer science known as the “Byzantine Generals Problem.”

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