The well-known magazine Forbes lately brought out 2021 annual rankings of the most affluent individuals worldwide. The names are issued every year in March. In 2021 the mark surged to a record of 2,755 which is 600 more than that of the previous year.
Forbes' research shows the number of names related to the crypto sector has been grown three times and now it's 12. The wealthiest of them is the Chief Executive Officer of FTX Exchange Sam Bankman-Fried, whose holdings are estimated at around $8.7 B. After, comes Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong with $6.5 B. Winklevoss Brothers' capital is about $6 B, which means they are the third richest in the crypto. Ripple's co-founder Chris Larsen owns $3.5 B.
Two billionaires, Microstrategy's Michael Saylor and Ripple's co-founder Jed McCaleb hold above $2 B, $2.3 B, and $2 B respectively.
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Then come Fred Ersham, co-founder of Coinbase ($1.9 B), CZ, the CEO of Binance ($1.9 B), Barry Silbert, the CEO of Digital Currency Group ($1.6 B), Matthew Roszak co-founder of Bloq ($1.5B) and venture capital investor Tim Draper ($1.5B).It's worth noting that there are also people like not famous traders or anonymous executives that are not included in the list. Speaking of crypto, the first name that comes to mind is Satoshi Nakamoto, who is supposed to have a capital of over $59 B. Along, with this, there are many crypto investors included in the entire list.