Forbes is best known for its list of Billionaires. Now it published a list of people who are cryptocurrency Billionaires. I do not know how they calculate how much money or digital currency each person has. It is quite difficult to find out the exact wealth. Anyway, it is good to have the first-ever list of Cryptocurrency Billionaires.

The Forbes “Richest People in Cryptocurrency” list is broken up into five categories: “idealists, builders, opportunists, infrastructure players and establishment investors.”

According to Forbes, Cryptocurrency assets were calculated based on the

Holding of Cryptocurrencies
Profits from Crypto-assets trading
Percentage of share in a cryptocurrency related business

Given this universe’s opaqueness and hyper-volatility, we’re presenting our first-ever list of the richest people in cryptocurrency in net-worth estimates in ranges. We based our numbers on estimated holdings of cryptocurrencies (a few provided proof), post-tax profits from trading crypto-assets and stakes in crypto-related businesses, and locked in our estimates using prices on Jan. 19, 2018. More Reading