{"id":34590,"date":"2021-01-12T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34590"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:20:05","slug":"forbes-estimates-fortunes-of-bitcoin-millionaires-whose-wealth-swelled-as-prices-surged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/forbes-estimates-fortunes-of-bitcoin-millionaires-whose-wealth-swelled-as-prices-surged\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes estimates fortunes of Bitcoin millionaires whose wealth swelled as prices surged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has compiled a list of people whose fortunes rose sharply as cryptocurrency prices climbed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bitcoin\u2019s recent surge has created new billionaires <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6W7hlVfh0M\">https:\/\/t.co\/6W7hlVfh0M<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b3GokW1JXX\">pic.twitter.com\/b3GokW1JXX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Forbes (@Forbes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forbes\/status\/1348664474971103233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the top are the founders of the Bitcoin exchange Gemini, the Winklevoss brothers. The estimated value of their cryptocurrency assets, according to Forbes, is about $1.4 billion each.<\/p>\n<p>In second place is Bloq co-founder Matthew Roszak with digital assets worth $1.2 billion. He is followed by venture capitalist Tim Draper. According to Forbes, the value of his assets is estimated at $1.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In fourth place is MicroStrategy chief Michael Saylor with assets of $600 million, in fifth \u2014 Galaxy Digital founder Mike Novogratz. Forbes valued his cryptocurrency assets at $478 million.<\/p>\n<p>The last on the list was Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin with assets of $360 million.<\/p>\n<p>In counting, the publication took into account only their cryptocurrency assets; the value was based on cryptocurrency rates at 16:00 MSK on January 11, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When compiling the 2018 ranking of the wealthiest people in the industry<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Forbes valued the worth of their stakes in companies and their cryptocurrency investments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/forbes-names-seven-crypto-industry-figures-on-its-30-under-30-list\">the list of the most promising young entrepreneurs<\/a> in finance from Forbes included seven representatives of the cryptocurrency industry.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has compiled a list of people whose wealth rose significantly as cryptocurrency prices rose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,1421],"class_list":["post-34590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-forbes","tag-rating"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34592,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34590\/revisions\/34592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}