The world’s cryptocurrency is now worth more than $ 1 trillion, with bitcoin making up a large majority of its value. The price of the oldest virtual currency has risen to nearly $ 40,000, increasing the value of all bitcoins in circulation to more than $ 700 billion.
Ether, the Ethereum network’s cryptocurrency, is now worth more than $ 140 billion. Then there is a long list of less valuable cryptocurrencies, including Tether at $ 22 million, Litecoin at $ 11 million and Bitcoin Cash at $ 8 billion.
It is believed that Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto owns about 1 million bitcoins. Most of this was exploited in the first two years of Bitcoin’s existence when there was little competition. If he still has copies of the private keys that control these coins, it will give him a net worth of almost $ 40 billion – enough to make him one of the 40 richest people on the planet. Nakamoto has never made his true identity public and has not communicated in public since 2014.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, brothers who became famous for their legal battle with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, are also the largest holders of bitcoins. At the height of the last bitcoin boom in 2017, the Winklevoss brothers had $ 1.3 billion in bitcoin, according to The New York Times. The same bitcoin estimate would be worth $ 2.6 billion today.