After Elon Musk’s recent crypto bet and Bitcoin subsequently breaking the $50,000 barrier, who are the richest people in cryptocurrency?
New research from Traders of Crypto has revealed the Crypto Rich List – the 25 people who have earned the most from the digital currency boom.
Unsurprisingly, mysterious Bitcoin dynamo Satoshi Nakamoto tops the list with a staggering $34.9 billion estimated fortune.
The founders of Ripple and Binance feature in the top 10, alongside the Winklevoss twins, who famously accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for Facebook – and used some of their $65m settlement to buy an estimated 700,000 Bitcoin.
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The Crypto Rich List
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Satoshi Nakamoto
Nationality: Japan
Company: Bitcoin
Age: 45
Estimated net worth: $34,937,100,000
The true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is unknown, but they’re credited as the person who first developed Bitcoin. The latest estimates predict that Nakamoto has 1 million Bitcoin, which in today’s money translates to about $34.9 billion, making them by far the richest person in crypto.
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MicreeZhan
Nationality: China
Company: Bitmain
Age: 41
Estimated net worth: $3,200,000,000
Micree Zhan, also known as Zhan Ketuan, is the co-founder of Bitmain which is the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining company. He was ousted in 2019 but has since bought shares from other shareholders to claim back his CEO status.
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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’s used by some of the world’s biggest banks such as American Express and Santander.
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Changpeng Zhao
Nationality: China
Company: Binance
Age: 43
Estimated net worth: $2,600,000,000
Changpeng Zhao, abbreviated to CZ, is founder and CEO of Binance. Binance claims to have 25% market share and is the largest crypto exchange in the world with $500 million in daily trading volume as of early 2019.
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Jihan Wu
Nationality: China
Company: Bitmain
Age: 34
Estimated net worth: $1,800,000,000
He co-founded Bitmain in 2013 with Micree Zhan, however the pair have had a rocky relationship. Jihan Wu announced in January that he’s leaving Bitmain to put an end to the power struggle between the two co-founders.
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Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
Nationality: United States
Company: Winklevoss Capital
Age: 39
Estimated net worth: $1,400,000,000
The Winklevoss twins are known for accusing Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for Facebook. They used some of their $65m settlement from this dispute to buy Bitcoin since 2012 and own an estimated 700,000 Bitcoin today.
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Mingxing Xu
Nationality: China
Company: OKCoin
Age: 34
Estimated net worth: $1,400,000,000
Mingxing Xu is the founder of OKCoin.com, a globally-oriented BitCoin trading platform. He was arrested in October last year for matters relating to his business and released in November, but did not publicise why.
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Matthew Roszak
Nationality: United States
Company: Bloq
Age: 48
Estimated net worth: $1,200,000,000
Matthew Roszak is co-founder and chairman of Bloq, a Chicago blockchain technology startup, and has been collecting crypto since 2012 as a long-standing advocate.
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Li Lin
Nationality: China
Company: Huobi
Age: –
Estimated net worth: $1,100,000,000
He is the founder of one of the three major exchanges in China and the world’s leading digital currency trading platform, Huobi – a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange.
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Tim Draper
Nationality: United States
Company: Draper Associates
Age: 62
Estimated net worth: $1,100,000,000
He is the founding partner of venture capital firms Draper Associates and Threshold. Another early advocate, he bought $250,000 worth of Bitcoin when the price of a single Bitcoin was $6.
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Joseph Lubin
Nationality: Canada
Company: Ethereum
Age: 56
Estimated net worth: $1,000,000,000
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Brian Armstrong
Nationality: United States
Company: Coinbase
Age: 37
Estimated net worth: $1,000,000,000
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Anthony Di Iorio
Nationality: Canada
Company: Ethereum
Age: 45
Estimated net worth: $750,000,000
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Brock Pierce
Nationality: United States
Company: Bitcoin Foundation
Age: 40
Estimated net worth: $700,000,000
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Dan Larimer
Nationality: United States
Company: Block.one
Age: 37
Estimated net worth: $600,000,000
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Brendan Blumer
Nationality: United States
Company: Block.one
Age: 34
Estimated net worth: $600,000,000
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Michael J. Saylor
Nationality: United States
Company: MicroStrategy
Age: 55
Estimated net worth: $600,000,000
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Valery Vavilov
Nationality: Latvia
Company: Bitfury
Age: 40
Estimated net worth: $500,000,000
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Blythe Masters
Nationality: United Kingdom
Company: Digital Asset Holdings
Age: 51
Estimated net worth: $500,000,000
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Charles Hoskinson
Nationality: United States
Company: Cardano
Age: 33
Estimated net worth: $500,000,000
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Michael Novogratz
Nationality: United States
Company: Galaxy Digital
Age: 56
Estimated net worth: $478,000,000
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Roger Ver
Nationality: Saint Kitts & Nevis
Company: Bitcoin.com
Age: 41
Estimated net worth: $430,000,000
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Brad Garlinghouse
Nationality: United States
Company: Ripple
Age: 49
Estimated net worth: $400,000,000
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Barry Silbert
Nationality: United States
Company: Digital Currency Group
Age: 43
Estimated net worth: $400,000,000
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Vitalik Buterin
Nationality: Russia
Company: Ethereum
Age: 26
Estimated net worth: $360,000,000
For a further detailed breakdown of the Crypto Rich List, visit Traders of Crypto
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