Every year, the Forbes publishes a list of the "richest" people in the world. That's what the list looked like at the beginning of 2017:
https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:static
At the end of 2017, Jeff Bezos jumped in first place (thanks to Amazon's over 50% increase in the last year on the American stock exchange), and his fortune exceeded 100 billion dollars. It overtakes Bill Gates with $ 93 billion and Warren Buffett - the legendary Wall Street investor - with a fortune of $ 87 billion.
Will the crazy increase in the value of cryptocurrencies mean that soon the holders of the largest number of tokens will be on the list? We could see them this year.
Chris Larsen
Co-founder of Ripple has the thickest crypto wallet in the world. There are 5 190,000,000 XRP tokens (yes, billions, not millions). In addition, it holds 17 percent of shares in the company. In total, his assets are estimated at tens of billions of dollars.
Satoshi Nakamoto
Legends say that a person or a group of people hiding under the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" has about 1,000,000 BTC, which is worth approximately $ 14,000,000.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
In July 2013, the Winklevoss brothers announced they had about 1% of all bitcoins - 120,000 BTC. If this is true, they have about $ 1,680,000,000.
Barry Silbert
Apparently, he bought 48,000 BTC on one of the auctions conducted by the US Marshals Service in 2014 (https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@cryptorep/fbi-silk-road-and-the-worst-deal-in-bitcoin-history Current value is $ 672,000,000.
Tim Draper
Another 30,000 BTCs from "FBI bitcoins" currently estimated at $ 420,000,000 went to him.
FBI
At one point, there was 144,000 BTC on the FBI bitcoin wallet. What happened to them? I encourage you to read: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@cryptorep/fbi-silk-road-and-the-worst-deal-in-bitcoin-history A few days ago I found information about the sale of about 500 BTC seized from another crime.
Who else?
A larger number of bitcons may also have: Tony Gallippi - co-founder of Bitpay, Charlie Shrem - co-founder of the BitInstant crypto-exchange (interestingly Winklevoss brothers have invested in his company $ 1.5 million), Roger Ver - one of the first Bitcoin "propagators" or Dave Carlson, who founded the company Bitcoin MegaBigPower.
Of course, these are just speculations. I suspect that the real crypto-billionaires will not reveal themselves.
We currently have 28491558 BTC addresses with at least 0.001 BTC. Among them as many as 22698 are wallets worth at least $ 1,000,000 (converting BTC into $). How many bitcoin millionaires do we have now? It's difficult to say because some of the addresses may belong to the same person.
10 richest BTC addresses:
https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-litecoin-addresses.html
The richest wallet. The number of Bitcoins in blue, the value in red is converted into $.
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/16rCmCmbuWDhPjWTrpQGaU3EPdZF7MTdUk
Are the following addresses Satoshi Nakamoto's wallets? Or maybe the owner forgot his password? ;)
Bitcoins bought for less than $ 2,000 today are worth over $ 463,000,000 today.
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/12ib7dApVFvg82TXKycWBNpN8kFyiAN1dr
Another wallet's address, which increased to over $ 400,000,000.
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/12tkqA9xSoowkzoERHMWNKsTey55YEBqkv
Litecoin
There are 2116967 addresses with at least 0.001 LTC, of which 1005 belong to "millionaires".
The richest LTC addresses:
https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-litecoin-addresses.html
Images from: https://pixabay.com, https://coinmarketcap.com, https://bitinfocharts.com
Have a nice day!
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(LTC) LezPqGVb3S69ssec92oBSRDQSFM32fZAyB
(DASH) Xco4Sx38vRHAx5veUYGoikDc7GdAqgLpH1
(ETH) 0x6e89496AC3692DDdE6976479BC8df524Ff5ea912
(LSK) 9879659926151325953L
(BCH) 1BuwvkUL9JY4fBQs6cKNFysqqkfiA4BtYA
(EOS) 0x6e89496AC3692DDdE6976479BC8df524Ff5ea912
(ETC) 0xb9c09B67d356F17939A1c2A4EDf81040Bd04cAf30
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