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Satoshi Nakamoto
Involvement
Birthdate
Unknown
Years Present
2007 - 2014
Net worth
$73.00 B
By the Danube River in Budapest, there is a statue. The face is bronze, and blank, so people can see their faces reflected in them. It is wearing a hoodie with the Bitcoin logo on the chest. It is a bust of the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. Nakamoto is the person or persons who founded Bitcoin, and they are anonymous and pseudonymous. He created a decentralized, digital commodity worth over a ...
Changpeng Zhao
Involvement
Birthdate
‘77 Sep 10 / 47 Y.O.
Years Present
2013 - now
Net worth
$17.00 B
Changpeng Zhao, who goes via CZ, is the founder and CEO of Binance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange around the globe. In 2020, Binance reached $2 trillion in general trading quantity, and Binance Coin (BNB) is now in the top largest cryptocurrency by marketplace cap. Zhao was born in China Jiangsu province on September 10, 1977. Within the late 1980s, he moved with his family to Canada, ...
Nicolas van Saberhagen
Involvement
Birthdate
Unknown
Years Present
2012 - 2013
Net worth
$12.00 B
CryptoNote is a protocol designed for cryptocurrencies that aim to solve Bitcoin‘s specific problems, including traceability of transactions, the proof-of-work function, irregular emission, hardcoded constants, bulky scripts, and financial privacy. The “CryptoNote Whitepaper” describes its mathematical component and motivation, released in two editions in 2012 and 2013. Bitcoin ...
Pavel Durov
Involvement
Russian FederationRussian Federation
Birthdate
‘84 Oct 10 / 40 Y.O.
Years Present
2018 - now
Net worth
$11.00 B
Born in October 1984, Pavel Valeryevich Durov is a Russian-born French-Emirati entrepreneur known for foundering the social networking site VK and Telegram Messenger. He is the younger brother of Nikolai Durov. A few years after his dismissal as CEO of VK in 2014, the Durov brothers traveled the world in self-imposed exile as citizens of St. Kitts and Nevis. Durov joined the World Economic Forum ...
Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
Involvement
Birthdate
‘81 Aug 21 / 43 Y.O.
Years Present
2013 - Now
Net worth
$6.00 B
Cameron Winklevoss, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur who, alongside his brother, Tyler, sued Facebook, claiming Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social networking site. In 2012, the Winklevii took the relative pittance Zuckerberg flicked at them to move away and stashed it in Bitcoin. Two Harvard- educated rowers, seeking fame and fortune in digital currencies — alongside nerds, crazies, ...
Birthdate
‘79 Jan 26 / 45 Y.O.
Years Present
2011 - now
Net worth
$5.25 B
Micree Zhan (Zhan Ketuan) is a Chinese businessman and electronics engineer. He is the CEO and co-founder (with Wu Jihan) of Bitmain, the world’s largest computer chip company for cryptocurrency mining. In 2018, Hurun Report named him the wealthiest cryptocurrency billionaire globally. Micree worked as an engineer at the Information Technology Research Institute at Tsinghua University after ...
Reeve Collins
Involvement
United StatesUnited States
Birthdate
‘75 / 49 Y.O.
Years Present
2012 - now
Net worth
$3.30 B
Reeve Collins is an extended pioneer in digital marketing and the Bitcoin/Blockchain area. Before Co-founding Smart Media Technology, Reeve was Co-based and was the CEO of BLOCKv, his 2nd blockchain organization. There he raised $22 million in an ICO to supply the primary-ever platform for the advent of NFTs. At his first blockchain challenge, he invented the stable coin as the Co-founder and CEO ...
United StatesUnited States
Birthdate
‘83 Jan 25 / 41 Y.O.
Years Present
2012 - now
Net worth
$3.20 B
Barry Silbert is the Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group, an international company that builds, buys, and invests in blockchain and Bitcoin businesses everywhere. DCG is the parent organization of Grayscale Investments (the most significant digital currency asset supervisor with ~$2 billion in AUM), Genesis Trading (the most extensive regulated crypto buying and selling and lending firm), ...
Birthdate
‘86 / 38 Y.O.
Years Present
2013 - now
Net worth
$2.39 B
Jihan Wu is a Chinese billionaire cryptocurrency entrepreneur. Together with Micree Zhan, he co-founded Bitmain in 2013, which has become the world’s biggest computer chip company for Bitcoin mining. Wu is a leading supporter of Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of bitcoin created in 2017 with increased transaction capacity. He crowned Forbes‘ 2020 international’s Billionaires list as ...
Michael Saylor
Involvement
United StatesUnited States
Birthdate
‘65 Feb 04 / 59 Y.O.
Years Present
2020 - now
Net worth
$2.30 B
The CEO of business analytics firm MicroStrategy exploded onto the bitcoin scene in 2020, leading MicroStrategy to invest further than $1.1 billion in the cryptocurrency at an average price of about $15,964 (those coins are now worth $2.4 a billion). He cited enterprises about the devaluation of the U.S. dollar due to the Federal Reserve publishing trillions of dollars and is currently leading ...