{"id":50706,"date":"2021-10-05T16:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T13:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50706"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:46:31","slug":"forbes-names-400-richest-us-billionaires-among-them-seven-cryptocurrency-industry-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/forbes-names-400-richest-us-billionaires-among-them-seven-cryptocurrency-industry-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes names 400 richest US billionaires. Among them seven cryptocurrency-industry figures."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has released its annual ranking of the 400 richest billionaires in the United States.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Announcing this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Forbes400?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Forbes400<\/a>: The definitive ranking of the wealthiest Americans in 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yPyHUjp7tw\">https:\/\/t.co\/yPyHUjp7tw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qnm6BEvemo\">pic.twitter.com\/qnm6BEvemo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Forbes (@Forbes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forbes\/status\/1445355753024458752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A total of seven representatives of the cryptocurrency industry made the list. The top among them was FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried with a fortune of $22.5 billion (32nd in the overall ranking). He also became the youngest participant on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the Forbes list were:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CEO of Coinbase Brian Armstrong \u2014 $11.5 billion at the time of compilation;<\/li>\n<li>Ripple cofounder Chris Larsen \u2014 $6 billion;<\/li>\n<li>Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss \u2014 $4.3 billion;<\/li>\n<li>Paradigm founder and Coinbase cofounder Fred Ehrsam \u2014 $3.5 billion;<\/li>\n<li>cofounder and former Ripple CTO Jed McCaleb \u2014 $3 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the top of the list was Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with a fortune of $201 billion, in second place Tesla and SpaceX head Elon Musk with $190.5 billion, and in third place Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with $134.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The combined net worth of the 400 richest Americans rose by 40% over the past year to $4.5 trillion. Almost all participants on the list were richer than a year ago, Forbes noted.<\/p>\n<p>Asset prices and exchange rates as of September 3, 2021 were used in the calculations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, 12 representatives of the cryptocurrency industry <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/forbes-crypto-billionaire-list-quadruples\">entered Forbes&#8217; list of the world&#8217;s richest people<\/a>. At that time, among the figures on the list, Sam Bankman-Fried also led.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 news on cryptocurrencies, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has released its annual list of the 400 richest American billionaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50707,"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":[34,1156,1421],"class_list":["post-50706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-forbes","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-rating"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50706","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=50706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50708,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50706\/revisions\/50708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}