Cryptocurrencies and Wealth: 10 biggest fortunes in 2021!

Cryptocurrencies, since their first appearance on the foreign exchange market, have seduced many investors and businessmen. Even today, virtual currency appears in the news much more often than before. Indeed, the latter has made many happy who have not hesitated to engage in its trading or other activities, such as mining or launching exchanges. According to Сoinmarketrate.com, 19 million BTC have already been mined, some of which have settled in the ”pockets” of crypto-millionaires.

So, here are the top 10 people who have made a good fortune thanks to cryptocurrencies!

1. Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto is the developer of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. He remained anonymous, and to this day no one knows the true identity of the famous creator of bitcoin.

The only information about him is his date of birth and Japanese origin (although doubtful). Indeed, the famous Nakamoto demonstrated excellent knowledge of English with his publications. Moreover, it has never been published in Japanese.

It is reported that the 46-year-old’s fortune is more than a million Bitcoins. At the moment, Bitcoin is worth 50 thousand dollars, Satoshi Nakamoto is the owner of a huge fortune, which is estimated at more than 50 billion dollars! An amount that is among the twenty largest fortunes in the world.

2. Sam Bankman-Fried

A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a degree in physics in 2014, Bankman-Fried began his professional career as a trader on Wall Street at Jane Street Capital.

In 2017, he founded Alameda Research, a company engaged in quantitative cryptocurrency trading. Two years later, he launched his own FTX trading platform, which in July 2021 raised $ 900 million from Coinbase Ventures and SoftBank, valuing it at $18 billion. This makes Bankman-Fried one of the richest people under the age of 30.

According to Forbes, his fortune is estimated at $26.5 billion, or about 569,517 Bitcoins.

3. Brian Armstrong

A businessman at heart, the famous Brian Armstrong showed his business skills at an early age. Coinbase Founder and CEO: Brian’s high school and university career is very impressive!

At the age of 38, he is already one of the richest people in the world, his fortune is just over $ 16 billion. Thus, the businessman found himself at the head of a fortune worth about 350,000 Bitcoins!

Since his Coinbase website has more than 43 million users, and the volume of assets in February 2020 amounted to $ 780 billion, Brian Armstrong has undoubtedly not finished his income-generating activities yet!

4. Chris Larsen

Chris Larsen is widely known as the co-founder of a number of technology startups in Silicon Valley. The businessman is a co-founder of Ripple Labs Inc, which is the creator of the Ripple cryptocurrency (XRP). This project largely determined his professional career, and did not fail to promote him to the ranks of billionaires.

In January 2014, Ripple Labs (formerly known as OpenCoin) was the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, right after Bitcoin.

At the age of 61, his personal fortune is estimated at $6 billion, which is equivalent to just over 130,000 Bitcoins.

5. Joseph Lubin

Joseph Lubin is a Canadian-born entrepreneur who is also a co-founder of several companies. In 2014, he participated in the creation of Consensys, and especially Ethereum.

Together with other entrepreneurs such as Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Lubin developed the Ethereum blockchain. He was 53 years old at the time.

Today, at the age of 57, the businessman’s fortune is estimated at about $ 5 billion.

6. Changpeng Zhao

A computer engineer, he graduated from McGill University in Canada. He then worked at the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange, as well as in the finance department of Bloomberg.

In 2017, he founded Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange for retail investors.

According to Forbes, his fortune is estimated at 40,828 Bitcoins, or $ 1.9 billion.

7. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss

Twin brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have made a special impression with their impressive business careers. Outstanding students of Harvard and Oxford, the Winklevoss brothers are brilliant athletes who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

After buying $11 million worth of Bitcoin for a project to facilitate the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies, they went bankrupt. Then they launched a new project called Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, which was later renamed Gemini.

Now the twins are over 40, they invest in several other cryptocurrencies and tokens. Their fortune is estimated at $ 6 billion, which is certainly far from the incredible amount of Mark Zuckerberg.

8. Mikri Zhang

An electronics engineer and businessman, Zhang in 2013, together with Jihan Wu, co-founded the Chinese cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain Technologies, which is the world’s largest cryptocurrency chip mining company.

His fortune is estimated at $3.2 billion, which is equivalent to 68,762 Bitcoins.

9. Jed McCaleb

McCaleb is an American developer and serial entrepreneur. He has many successful projects to his credit.

In 2010, he created the company Mt. Gox, the first major bitcoin exchange, which he sold a year later.

Two years later, he became one of the founders of Ripple. He later abandoned it, due to disagreements with the other founders.

In 2014, he co-founded Stellar, which aims to accelerate cross-border payments.

His current fortune is $3 billion or about 64,464 Bitcoin.

10. Anthony Di Iorio

Anthony Di Iorio is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and co-founder of Ethereum. He is also one of the very first investors in Bitcoin.

A professor at the University of Toronto, he also served as Director of Digital Technology at the Toronto Stock Exchange.

He advises and serves on the board of directors of several companies. In 2018, Forbes estimated his fortune at $1 billion.