After Elon Musk and Bitcoin's recent crypto gamble that subsequently broke the $ 50,000 barrier, who are the richest people in cryptocurrency?
THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES.
Satoshi Nakamoto
Nationality: Japan
Company: Bitcoin
Age: 45
Estimated net worth: $ 34,937,100,000
Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity is unknown, but he is credited as the person who first developed Bitcoin. The latest estimates predict that Nakamoto has 1 million Bitcoins, which translates to around 34.9 billion dollars in today's money. Which makes him by far the richest person in cryptocurrencies.
MicreeZhan
Nationality: China
Azienda: Bitmain
Age: 41
Estimated Net Worth: $ 3,200,000,000
Micree Zhan, also known as Zhan Ketuan, is the co-founder of Bitmain, the largest cryptocurrency mining company in the world.
He was ousted in 2019 but has since bought shares from other shareholders to claim his CEO status.
Chris Larsen
Nationality: United States
Company: Ripple
Age: 60
Estimated Net Worth: $ 2,700,000,000
Chris Larsen has co-founded several successful Silicon Valley startups, his most notable being Ripple, which allows for international payments using blockchain technology. It is used by some of the largest banks in the world such as American Express and Santander.
Changpeng Zhao
Nationality: China
Azienda: Binance
Age: 43
Estimated Net Worth: $ 2,600,000,000
once claims to have a 25% market share and is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world with $ 500 million in daily trading volume in early 2019. CEO of Binance.
Jihan Wu
Nationality: China
Azienda: Bitmain
Age: 34
Estimated Net Worth: $ 1,800,000,000
He co-founded Bitmain in 2013 with Micree Zhan, however, the couple had a difficult relationship. Jihan Wu announced in January that he will be leaving Bitmain to end the power struggle between the two co-founders.
Cameron e Tyler Winklevoss
Nationality: United States
Azienda: Winklevoss Capital
Age: 39
Estimated Net Worth: $ 1,400,000,000
Today they own around 700,000 Bitcoins.
Mingxing Xu
Nationality: China
Company: OKCoin
Age: 34
Mingxing Xu is the founder of OKCoin.com, a globally oriented BitCoin trading platform. He was arrested in October last year for business-related matters and released in November, but he never made public the reason.
Matteo Roszaki
Nationality: United States
Company: Blog
Age: 48
Estimated Net Worth: $ 1,200,000,000
Matthew Roszak is co-founder and president of Bloq, a blockchain technology startup from Chicago, and has been collecting cryptocurrencies since 2012.
Li Lin
Nationality: China
Company: Huobi
Age: -
Estimated Net Worth: $ 1,100,000,000
He is the founder of one of the top three exchanges in China and the world's leading digital currency trading platform, Huobi, a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange.
Tim Draper
Nationality: United States
Company: Draper Associates
Age: 62
Estimated Net Worth: $ 1,100,000,000
He is the founding partner of the venture capital firms Draper Associates and Threshold. Another early proponent, he bought Bitcoin worth $ 250,000 when the price of a single Bitcoin was $ 6.
Giuseppe Lubin
Nationality: Canada
Company: Ethereum
Age: 56
Estimated Net Worth: $ 1,000,000,000
Brian Armstrong
Nationality: United States
Company: Coinbase
Age: 37
Estimated Net Worth: $ 1,000,000,000
Anthony Di Iorio
Nationality: Canada
Company: Ethereum
Age: 45
Estimated Net Worth: $ 750,000,000
Brock Pierce
Nationality: United States
Company: Bitcoin Foundation
Age: 40
Estimated Net Worth: $ 700,000,000
Dan Larimer
Nationality: United States
Company: Block.one
Age: 37
Estimated Net Worth: $ 600,000,000
Brendan Blumer
Nationality: United States
Company: Block.one
Age: 34
Estimated Net Worth: $ 600,000,000
Michael J. Saylor
Nationality: United States
Company: MicroStrategy
Age: 55
Estimated Net Worth: $ 600,000,000
Valery Vavilov
Nationality: Latvia
Company: Bitfury
Age: 40
Estimated Net Worth: $ 500,000,000
Blythe Masters
Nationality: United Kingdom
Company: Digital Asset Holdings
Age: 51
Estimated Net Worth: $ 500,000,000
Charles Hoskinson
Nationality: United States
Company: Cardano
Age: 33
Estimated Net Worth: $ 500,000,000
Michael Novogratz
Nationality: United States
Company: Galaxy Digital
Age: 56
Estimated Net Worth: $ 478,000,000
Roger See
Nationality: Saint Kitts and Nevis
Company: Bitcoin.com
Age: 41
Estimated Net Worth: $ 430,000,000
Brad Garlinghouse
Nationality: United States
Company: Ripple
Age: 49
Estimated Net Worth: $ 400,000,000
Barry Silbert
Nationality: United States
Company: Digital Currency Group
Age: 43
Estimated Net Worth: $ 400,000,000
Vitalik Buterin
Nationality: Russia
Company: Ethereum
Age: 26
Estimated Net Worth: $ 360,000,000
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