Forbes 2024 Rich List: 17 crypto billionaires are on the list, Binance’s Changpeng Zhao wins the title for the third consecutive time

Forbes released the 2024 list of global sub-millionaires today (2). Compared with the 9 people on the list last year, the number of people on the list in the cryptocurrency field this year has increased to 17 bits. The total value of their crypto-assets, publicly disclosed stock portfolios and private wealth is as high as US$93 billion, more than double the US$37 billion total wealth of the nine richest people on the list last year.

Changpeng Zhao has become the richest man in crypto for three times in a row

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder and CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been worth $10.5 billion from last year Doubled to 33 billion US dollars, ranking first among cryptocurrency rich people and ranking 50th among the world's billionaires.

The CEO of MicroStrategy and the CEO of Coinbase saw the largest increase in net worth

Among the crypto billionaires on this list, Forbes pointed out that the biggest beneficiary is Bitcoin, which is currently the largest listed company in the United States. The holders are Michael Saylor, the founder of MicroStrategy, and Brian Armstrong, the CEO of the US-listed exchange Coinbase. Saylor is said to hold more than $1 billion in Bitcoin, while Armstrong is worth about $6 billion. These figures are well above last year's largest gain of 16% for the S&P 500 Index.

Bitcoin has performed well in this year’s surge. Michael Saylor’s net worth has surged from $760 million last year to $4.4 billion, ranking fourth among crypto billionaires; and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s net worth is even more It rose from US$2.2 billion last year to US$11.2 billion, ranking second only to Changpeng Zhao.

The U.S. dollar stable currency USDT, issued by the commercial company Tether, appeared on the Forbes billionaire list for the first time this year. They are Giancarlo Devasini, Paolo Ardoino, Jean-Louisvander Velde and Stuart Hoegner.

Ranking of 17 crypto-rich people

In order of worth from high to low, among the 17 crypto-rich people on the list this year, the top 10 are:

• 赵长peng: US$33 billion, source of wealth: Binance

• Brian Armstrong: US$11.2 billion, source of wealth: Coinbase

• Giancarlo Devasini: $9.2 billion, source of wealth: Tether

• Michael Saylor: $4.4 billion, source of wealth: MicroStrategy, Bitcoin

• Paolo Ardoino: 3.9 billion USD, source of wealth: Tether

• Jean-Louisvander Velde: $3.9 billion, source of wealth: Tether

• #Chris Larsen: $3.2 billion, Source of wealth: Ripple, Source of wealth: Bitcoin, Ethereum

• JedMc Caleb: $2.9 billion, Source of wealth: XRPsales

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