18 of the Richest Crypto Figures in the World

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The richest crypto figures in the world accumulate their wealth in various ways, but most are founders of large crypto projects and crypto currency exchange platforms. The other list residents are individual investors or part of the investment group, while the rest are founders of crypto money mining operations.

These successful crypto users have striking similarities in how to collect their wealth, namely by applying the "HODL" principle, so that when the price of crypto currencies gets higher, the value of their wealth goes up. The biggest crypto owner in the world is also very young. The average age of the 18 richest people in the crypto scope is only 42 years. In comparison, the average age in the list of 400 richest Americans is 67 years.

following the name of the richest crypto figure

  1. Chris Larsen

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Larsen is the chief executive and former CEO of Ripple, a Blockchain company that provides cross-border payment features at very little cost. At present, it has 5.2 billion XRP and Ripple itself controls more than 61 billion XRP. Larsen's total wealth is estimated at 95 billion USD.

2 Joseph Lubin

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The next richest crypto figure is Joseph Lubin, a former Goldman Sachs executive who funded the BlockchainEthereum platform. He founded ConsenSys, a giant 600 Blockchain member in 28 countries, which has helped launch Startup and crypto token companies, and consulted representatives of major technology companies such as Microsoft.

3 Changpeng Zhao

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Changpeng Zhao or often known as "CZ" is the person who has created the largest crypto market in the world, Binance, in just less than 7 months. When Binance reaches 6 million users, CZ has moved its operations to three different countries so as not to be hampered by various state regulations that prohibit the circulation of crypto currencies.

4 Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss

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The Winklevoss brothers have launched one of the big comeback stories in American business. In 2012, they bought Bitcoin when Blockchain technology users were still few. They have also built a New York-based crypto exchange that recently processed 300 million USD in daily transactions.

5 Matthew Mellon
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As the heir of one of the great wealth of American banking, Mellon began working in the crypto world a few years ago. At first, Mellon received various warnings from friends and family about his activities. He is an early investor in XRP, a token launched by Ripple, which aims to create Blockchain technology for large banks. Mellon's wealth is now estimated at 1 billion USD. Unfortunately, the richest crypto figure died on April 16, 2018 ago.

6 Brian Armstrong

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In crypto money fever over the past few years, Armstrong is one of the people who get a lot of profit in a very short time. In 2012, he founded Coinbase, the most popular exchange and entry point for trading crypto currencies in the US. At present, Brian Armstrong's wealth is estimated at around 900 million to 1 billion USD.

7 Matthew Roszak

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I am very lucky ", said Roszak, who learned about Bitcoin in 2011, and participated in the ICO (Initial Coin Offering) program that he offered. He was always looking for new members and continued to HODL BTC to get thousands of percent of his investment. .

8 Anthony Di Iorio

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At Iorio continue to invest in the development of the Ethereum Blockchain platform, and continue to invest in several other crypto assets. This richest crypto figure has a strategy: get in early and after assets grow and level up, pour the profits into other promising new coins.

9 Brock Pierce

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Pierce is one of the investors who is very active in funding the initial Blockchain projects. He has funded dozens of crypto companies including Mastercoin, Coinbase, and Ethereum. At present, he plans to donate 1 billion USD to the decentralized autonomous community run on Blockchain.

10 Michael Novogratz

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Novogratz is a well-known former billionaire and manager of the Hedge Fund. At the age of 53, Novogratz made a good comeback by starting to invest crypto money in 2013, and left Fortress Investment Group two years later to focus on crypto.

11 Brendan Blumer

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Operating from Hong Kong, this native Iowa has listed the largest token sales in the world and managed to raise $ 1 billion for EOS.IO, the Blockchain platform that challenges Ethereum. Blumer first tried virtual assets at the age of 14 by selling weapons and characters in Online Games.

12 Dan Larimer

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This richest crypto figure used to work as a software engineer who was used to be the driving force of the American military industry. One day, Larimer felt a crisis of identity and decided to create a system that provided life, freedom, and could belong to the whole community. Today, Larimer has established three Blockchain platforms, including EOS.IO, which runs the biggest token sales ever.

13 Valery Vavilov

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Witnessing his parents losing money during the collapse of the Soviet Union, leaving a deep bitter experience on Vavilov. Therefore, this 38-year-old man is very motivated to study networks that are not controlled by one authority. Decades later, Vavilov, of Latvian descent, became one of the founders and CEO of Bitfury, the largest company that mines Bitcoin.

14 Charles Hoskinson

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Hoskinson is one of the CEO of the Blockchain Ethereum platform. But because there was an internal dispute in the Ethereum company, he chose to stop and to start IOHK-Input Output, a technology company committed to using peer to peer innovation. At present, IOHK focuses on crypto development and blockchain for companies, government entities, and academic institutions.

15 Brad Garlinghouse

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Garlinghouse who is educated at Harvard has expertise in mainstream technology. Before becoming CEO of Ripple, this figure with a fortune of 500 million USD had worked in companies like AOL and Yahoo. With Ripple, Garlinghouse hopes its startup can create Blockchain technology for big banks.

16 Barry Silbert

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Silbert became famous on Wall Street for building Second Market, an exchange for assets that are difficult to trade. His other business activity was to become CEO of Digital Currency Group (owner of CoinDesk media site). Not only that, Silbert has also invested in venture in crypto companies such as Ripple and Coinbase.

17 Vitalik Buterin

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Buterin is the creator of the Ethereum Blockchain platform which has triggered the ICO trend, and now has a market capitalization of 100 billion USD. People whose names often appear on the news about Blockchain technology, have worked with people like Microsoft, BP and JPMorgan.

18 Tim Draper

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Tim Draper is a resilient Silicon Valley venture capitalist and a Bitcoin fan from the start of the release, long before Bitcoin was as famous as it is today. "I believe that Bitcoin and crypto technology will drive a large part of world trade," he said.

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