Although SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci is a passionate Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) advocate today, there was a time he couldn’t make sense of it at all—despite early exposure to Satoshi-era figures.
Scaramucci Couldn’t Care Less About BTC At A Time
On a podcast with Liz Thomas that aired April 15, Scaramucci revealed that he was introduced to Bitcoin back in 2011 while attending a presentation by Hal Finney, the late software developer who received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto.
“I did not understand it,” Scaramucci added. The skepticism stuck around for a while. Fast forward to 2013, Scaramucci took to X, then Twitter, to declare that he didn’t know what a Bitcoin was, and couldn’t care less.
Scaramucci then recalled that he was reintroduced to Bitcoin during a conference in Las Vegas, where the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, came over and began telling him about the leading cryptocurrency.
But Scaramucci was still doubtful.
“My eyes were glazing over, …
