Maybe we shouldn’t, but it got a lot of prominent people talking. : Balaji Srinivasan, the man making the million dollar bet that bitcoin is about to skyrocket. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch) On Friday, Balaji Srinivasan, a man who wields considerable influence in the tech and crypto worlds, made a jaw-dropping bet: $2 million that bitcoin would skyrocket from the mid-$20,000 range to $1 million per coin within 90 days. With this wager setting tongues wagging, the question on the lips of everyone outside the Silicon Valley club is: who exactly is Balaji Srinivasan?