<p>Dave Portnoy, the pugnacious founder of Barstool Sports and, these days, a celebrity day trader, has bought some bitcoin with the help of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.</p> <p>In a video appearance published Thursday, the twin brothers and founders of crypto exchange Gemini walked Portnoy through the basics of bitcoin and coached him on purchasing some $200,000 of the cryptocurrency. Portnoy also purchased $50,000 of Chainlink’s LINK token. In a separate tweet, Portnoy claimed to be "7 figures deep now in this stuff."</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">I Am Now the Baron of Bitcoin Featuring The Winklevoss Twins <a href="https://twitter.com/tylerwinklevoss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tylerwinklevoss</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/winklevoss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@winklevoss</a> <a href="https://t.co/0cGxEGZCs5">pic.twitter.com/0cGxEGZCs5</a></p> — Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1293993222868369408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2020</a></blockquote> <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p> <p>Portnoy founded Barstool Sports, which covers sports and culture, in 2003. Barstool publishes content on its site as well as across social media. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic-related quarantines, Portnoy has gained notoriety as a day trader, streaming his activities daily under the Davey Day Trader moniker. </p> <p>In that time, Portnoy attracted both a dedicated audience of traders chasing riches — fitting squarely into a culture driven by fast-moving memes and a frenzied population of <a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tag/robinhood">Robinhood</a> speculators — as well as <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/a-favorite-stock-of-barstool-founder-portnoy-is-worthless-short-seller">critics</a> who've blasted his approach to covering stocks. As of the time of writing, Portnoy has amassed a Twitter following of 1.7 million.</p> <p>Earlier this month, in a separate video, Portnoy said that he had previously <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1290649614622822407">bought</a> $20,000 in bitcoin, but lamented the complexities in purchasing and holding digital assets compared to buying stocks.</p> <p>As the video came to a close, Portnoy was asked by the person shooting the video about the explanations offered by the Winklevoss twins.</p> <div class="c-message_kit__gutter"> <div class="c-message_kit__gutter__right" data-qa="message_content"> <div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text"> <div class="c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first"> <div class="p-rich_text_block" dir="auto"> <div class="p-rich_text_section">"I literally have no idea what bitcoin is, do you?" Portnoy replied.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>