At that time, the cryptocurrency was going for around $800, she told CNBC. She and Mr. Hammerbacher, who is also her husband, had their sights set on Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust, a fund for accredited investors to funnel money into cryptocurrency.
Since then, “It’s (bitcoin) done extraordinarily well,” Ms. Tecco wrote. In fact, today the cryptocurrency is worth more than $17,000. The couple has decided to donate their undisclosed gains — which Ms. Tecco suggested to be in the range of hundreds of thousands of dollars — to the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, S.C.
“The investor community that as benefited from the bitcoin craze should use this foresight (and luck!) to help others,” she told CNBC in a text message. “We hope we are just the first.”
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