{"id":52405,"date":"2025-10-12T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52405"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:01:41","slug":"pavel-durov-recently-revealed-that-bitcoin-not-telegram-funded-his-lifestyle-and-helped-him-stay-afloat-i-believe-in-this-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52405","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Durov Recently Revealed That Bitcoin, Not Telegram, &#8216;Funded&#8217; His Lifestyle And Helped Him Stay &#8216;Afloat&#8217;: &#8216;I Believe In This Thing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Telegram <\/strong>founder <strong>Pavel Durov<\/strong> has amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune, but few know it was largely made possible by his <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) investments.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Early Believer<\/h2>\n<p>During a podcast with\u00a0<strong>Lex Fridman<\/strong>\u00a0that aired Oct. 1, Durov shared his early investment journey into the world\u2019s leading cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got to buy my first few thousand of Bitcoin in 2013, and I didn\u2019t care much,\u201d Durov revealed. \u201cIt\u2019s something like $700 per Bitcoin, and I just threw a couple of millions there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power &amp; Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qjPH9njnaVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin, Not Telegram, Funded Durov\u2019s Lifestyle<\/h2>\n<p>Durov recalled Bitcoin plunging to around &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48166877\/pavel-durov-recently-revealed-that-bitcoin-not-telegram-funded-his-lifestyle-and-helped-him\" alt=\"Pavel\" durov recently revealed that bitcoin not telegram his lifestyle and helped him stay believe in this thing>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram founder Pavel Durov has amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune, but few know it was largely made possible by his Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) investments. The Early Believer During a podcast with\u00a0Lex Fridman\u00a0that aired Oct. 1, Durov shared his early investment journey into the world\u2019s leading cryptocurrency. \u201cI got to buy my first few thousand of Bitcoin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-52405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}