PANews reported on April 18 that according to Cointelegraph, Barry Silber, CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG), said on Raoul Pal's "Journey Man" podcast that if he had only held the Bitcoin he bought when investing in early crypto projects around 2012, he could have obtained higher investment returns. He claimed that he discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and bought Bitcoin at a price of 7-8 US dollars per coin. After the price of Bitcoin rose, Silber began to look for early crypto companies to invest in. Silber said: "I invested a lot in Bitcoin at the time. You might think that if you invested in Coinbase, you would make a lot of money. But if I just hold Bitcoin, I will actually make more than those investments."