--- title: Winklevoss Twins Use Bitcoin For Virgin Galactic Space Flight description: Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss say they'll bankroll an out-of-this-world trip aboard the Virgin Galactic for the low price of 716 bitcoin. Perhaps no one is anticipating their launch more than Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg canonical: https://time.com/13975/the-winklevoss-twins-are-going-to-space-thanks-to-bitcoin/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-06T14:12:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:32.186Z og:title: The Winklevoss Twins Are Going to space Thanks to Bitcoin og:description: Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss say they'll bankroll an out-of-this-world trip aboard the Virgin Galactic for the low price of 716 bitcoin. 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The [Winklevoss twins’ recent bitcoin endeavors are bankrolling their trip to outer space](http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/05/technology/winklevoss-space-flight/) onboard the Virgin Galactic. We’re sure Mark Zuckerberg looks forward to their departure from the earth’s stratosphere, if only for a few hours. Virgin CEO Richard Branson began accepting the crypto currency as a viable means of payment for the [$250,000-a-pop ticket in November](http://www.cnbc.com/id/101220710). That’s the current equivalent of[ 716 bitcoin, which is a fraction of the Winklevoss twins’ reported 1% ownership](http://qz.com/184696/bitcoin-virgin-galactic-richard-branson-winklevoss-in-space-its-not-as-simple-as-you-think/) (about 100,000 coins) of the currency. Tyler announced their brotherly space journey of [Twitter](https://twitter.com/tylerwinklevoss/statuses/441222250675466241) and their [personal blog](http://winklevosscapital.com/posts/78649481042?%5Fga=1.98121629.383505311.1391465534), which likens their adventure to the explorations of Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, and Vasco da Gama. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/13975/the-winklevoss-twins-are-going-to-space-thanks-to-bitcoin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/13975/the-winklevoss-twins-are-going-to-space-thanks-to-bitcoin/"},"headline":"The Winklevoss Twins Are Going to Space, Thanks to Bitcoin","datePublished":"2014-03-06T14:12:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:32.186Z","description":"Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss say they'll bankroll an out-of-this-world trip aboard the Virgin Galactic for the low price of 716 bitcoin. 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