The mysterious creator of Bitcoin, known under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, became the 11th richest person in the world, according to data quoted by Arkham Intelligence. According to analysts, 1.096 million bitcoins are stored on Nakamoto wallets. They increased in price to $ 133 billion after the first cryptocurrency on July 14 set a new record, rising in price above $ 123 thousand, reports RBC Crypto.
According to the list of Forbes billionaires, the co-founder of Google Sergey Brin ($ 142.3 billion) is in tenth, and the general director of Dell Computers Michael ($ 125 billion) is in 11th position. The rating does not track cryptocurrency savings, but when recalculating capital to dollars, Nakamoto could take 11th place, also approaching the ex-head of Microsoft to Steve Balmer and the legendary investor Warren Buffett, whose condition is slightly higher than that of Brin-$ 142.6 billion and $ 142.4 billion, respectively.
In the first place of Forbes list is the general director of SpaceX and Tesla Elon Musk. Its fortune is estimated at $ 404 billion. It is followed by a co -founder of the company Oracle Developer Larry Ellison and the head of META (recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) Mark Zuckerberg, whose conditions are estimated at $ 274 billion and $ 247 billion, respectively.
In order for Nakamoto to become the richest person on earth and a mask bypasses, Bitcoin should grow to $ 370 thousand per coin (provided that the capital of other billionaires will remain unchanged).
All funds from mining were received to Nakamoto in the first days of the Bitcoin network. Its wallet has remained untouched since 2010, not one of the BTC has been moved since then that has generated endless rumors that Nakamoto had died, went missing or simply departed from the case, as he planned in 2011.
The number of bitcoins Nakamoto exceeds the reserves of anyone else, with a large margin. According to BITBO, public companies all together store 857 thousand BTC, private – a total of 421 thousand BTCs, the state – 529 thousand VTS. And only all American exchange funds for Bitcoin combined are stored more coins than the creator of the asset – 1.44 million BTC.
Among the people whose savings in Bitcoin are known, the founders of the cryptocurrency exchange of Gemini are in the first place are the Gemini brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklvossy. Their savings are estimated at 70 thousand BTC.
The venture investor and one of the first supporters of Bitcoin Tim Draper owns about 30 thousand coins that he bought at the Marshals auction in 2014. The co -founder of Strategy Michael Saylor also stores bitcoins outside the assets of his company, according to information for August 2024, he had about 17.7 thousand coins.
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Source: Cryptocurrency
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