They bought them with bitcoin.
"I won't make that mistake again," Tyler Winklevoss tweeted Thursday. That's because the price of a single bitcoin at the time was 800 dollars.
This Friday, bitcoin was trading just under 10,000 dollars each.
A Virgin Galactic ticket is valued at 250,000 dollars, and at that price Winklevoss would have spent about 312.5 bitcoin for the ticket. 312.5 bitcoin today would be worth 3.1 million dollars.
Even bitcoin billionaires can be foolish.
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