Top 5 richest people in Cryptocurrency

The cryptocurrency business is a serious busy business as it’s just a little bit over 10 years. Just earlier this year, the total market cap hit $2 trillion. According to Forbes list these are the top richest people in the cryptocurrency world.

Brian Armstrong
You must have seen this face, either he is advertising Coinbase or he is telling you how cryptocurrency is going to rule the world. He is the CEO of Coinbase, which is the most popular place to buy and sell your Cryptocurrency. This platforms processes about $3 billion transactions every day. The CEO publicly claimed that he owns 20% of Coinbase.

Sam Bankman-Fried
The 29 years young man founded FTX with his friend who they went to MIT together. He launched the crypto exchange platform, FTX in 2019 and managing an asset worth $2.5 billion through Alameda Research. Alameda Research is a firm that deals with quantitative crypto trading which was founded in 2017 by Sam Bankman-Fried. Most of his wealth is in the FTX native token FTT.

Tyler & Michael Winklevoss
They were once Olympic rowers and were popular known for accusing and suing their fellow Harvard student , Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their social network idea he used for Facebook. They got a $65 million settlement from the law suit which they used to stockpile bitcoin. They own an estimated 70,000 bitcoin quantities, they also own other digital assets. They also cofounded the crypto exchange Gemini that is recorded to process an estimated $200 million a day.

Chris Larsen
He was the cofounder of Ripple, which he founded with Jed McCaleb. His net worth was estimated to be around $17 billion when XRP hit an All time high.

Michael Saylor
The CEO and founder of Micro Strategy, a software firm, was once a crypto critic. In 2020 Michael Saylor bought 70,784 bitcoins for $1.1 billion and has bought more bitcoins to have a total 105,085 BTC, this certainly put him on the list.

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