7 Most Bitcoin $BTC Owners in the World, Is There Elon Musk?
Crypto currency investment was very tempting during its heyday in 2020-2021. Miners make huge profits and many even become newly rich from investing in Bitcoin or Ethereum.
1. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
These twin brothers are newcomers to Forbes' list of the richest people in cryptocurrency.
They are also known for their conflict with Mark Zuckerberg over the creation of Facebook, from which they received a legal settlement of US$65 million.
Today, the Winklevoss twins own about US$6 billion in Bitcoin.
2. Michael Saylor
Michael Saylor is the CEO of software company MicroStrategy. Saylor started buying Bitcoin and has more than 120,000 BTC and continues to accumulate if the Bitcoin price declines.
3. Crypto Exchange
The first crypto exchange in the world, namely bitcoinmarket.com, was released via the bitcointalk forum on January 15 2010.
Mt.Gox has monopolizes the bitcoin trading volume of more than 80% of its total trading transaction volume. However, unfortunately in 2014, Mt.Gox was completely hacked.
Currently, the largest crypto exchange in the world by volume is Binance.
4. Satoshi Nakamoto
Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin in 2009. He allegedly mined a total of 1,125,150 BTC. It is said that Nakamoto kept more than half of it, equivalent to almost US$30 billion
5. Law Enforcement Agencies
Most Bitcoin owners are legal institutions or government agencies. For example, Bulgaria managed to hold 213,500 BTC in 2017 before the cryptocurrency broke US$ 20,000 for the first time.
6. Barry Silbert
Barry Silbert is the founder and CEO of the Digital Currency Group (DCG) conglomerate. DCG has invested in more than 200 crypto startups and even managed to acquire CoinDesk and Coinbase.
The company manages investments holding more than 650,000 Bitcoins. This amounts to more than US$ 25 billion.
7. Tim Draper
In 2014, Draper bought 30,000 Bitcoins for US$ 19 M at auction after they were confiscated from the illegal online marketplace Silk Road.
