FX.co ★ Forbes: Bitcoin millionaires rating

The richest man in crypto is Chris Larsen, the founder of Ripple, the company that facilitates international payments for banks using blockchain technology. Forbes estimated his fortune in the range from $7.5 billion to $8 billion.

Joseph Lubin occupies the second place. He began his career working in robotics and then become the founder of Ethereum. According to the magazine, his fortune is estimated in the range from $1 billion to $5 billion.

The third place is taken by the CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao. His fortune ranges from $1.1 billion to $2 billion. Though his crypto-exchange appeared about seven months ago.

The twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are also in this list. In 2017, The Telegraph named them the world's first Bitcoin billionaires. Famously, the American rowers and businessmen accused Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for a social network suing Facebook. In November 2003, they hired Zuckerberg, providing him with the texts of HarvardConnection's developed code. According to Forbes, the brother's fortune is in the range from $900 million to $1.1 billion.

The heir to one of America's great banking fortunes, Matthew Mellon, expressed an interest in cryptocurrencies for the first time in 2014. Investments at an early stage helped him make a fortune ranging from $900 million to $1 billion.

Matthew is the direct heir of Thomas Mellon, the founder and first head of Mellon Bank.

Brian Armstrong holds the sixth place. Great success came to him thanks to the Coinbase project (a company for the exchange of digital assets) which today serves 9.5 million customers in 32 countries. Prior to that, he worked as a software engineer at airbnb.com, a company that makes it easy to rent a home for a short time. The fortune of Armstrong is estimated from $900 million to $1 billion.

Matthew Roszak, one of the founders of Bloq, a company that produces software for blockchains, has done an impressive way to earn his fortune. He participated in the first ICO, now he possibly has from $900 million to $1 billion. "At first it was important to invest and build ramps, bridges, roads and tunnels of this industry, as well as promote innovation," - notes Roszak.

Entrepreneur, community organizer, public speaker and ideological leader in decentralized technologies Anthony Di Iorio occupied the eighth place. The fortune of the Ethereum co-founder is estimated from $750 million to $1 billion.

Venture capitalist and chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation's board of directors, Brock Pierce was once an avid gamer, and then founded Internet Gaming Entertainment which is today one of the largest trading companies with virtual assets. After that Pierce got carried away with cryptocurrencies. Today his fortune is estimated from $700 million to $1 billion.

Michael Novogratz, the former CEO of Fortress Investment Group and founder of Galaxy Digital, got to the list of Forbes billionaires in 2007. He began investing in crypto in 2013. Now his fortune ranges from $700 million to $1 billion.

The Forbes rating also includes a native of the USSR Valery Vavilov and a native of Russia, who grew up in Canada, Vitalik Buterin. Vavilov is the co-founder of BitFury, one of the world's largest producers of "iron" for the processing of transactions in the market of cryptocurrencies. According to the magazine, his fortune is in the range from $500 million to $700 million.

Buterin created the Ethereum cryptocurrency that is the second most popular after Bitcoin. Buterin's fortune is estimated from $400 million to $500 million.