If you’ve perused Bitcoin and Silicon Valley Twitter at all over the past few years, you’ve likely heard the word “unicorn” thrown about. Heck, if you’ve read Bloomberg or watched any number of CNBC’s segments over the past decade, you’ve heard the word.<\/p>\n
No, it’s not a reference to the mythical creature with one long horn, but is rather a word used to describe the fleeting number of startups that have surmounted a $1 billion U.S. valuation.<\/p>\n
If you were to search up the term in the context of Silicon Valley and global technology, you’d likely come up with the usual suspects: Uber, Airbnb, Robinhood, and the works. Though, maybe the top unicorn is Bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n That’s what a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur and Silicon Valley mainstay recently proposed anyway.<\/a><\/p>\n Balaji Srinivasan, the co-founder of Earn, Teleport, CoinCenter, and other startups and the former CTO of Coinbase, recently wrote that he thinks Bitcoin was the biggest unicorn was Bitcoin, not Snapchat, or Uber, or Airbnb, etc.<\/p>\n As the decade ends, the biggest unicorn of the 2010s wasn\u2019t Uber, Airbnb, or Snap. It was Bitcoin.<\/p>\n — Balaji (@balajis) December 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nBitcoin, the Biggest Unicorn, Possibly Ever<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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