There is a craze all over the world for virtual currency or cryptocurrency. And so investors invest in different types of virtual currencies. The soaring prices of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin over the past decade have turned many ordinary investors into millionaires. Investors became interested in the principle of decentralization and the peer-to-peer financial system of the cryptocurrency in the early days of Bitcoin's launch. The volatile market value of various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, has driven many investors away. Still, many popular businessmen are becoming millionaires because of Bitcoin. Bitinfocharts has released a list of the top five Bitcoin millionaires as of January 19. As of that day, the price of 1 Bitcoin was 41 thousand 200 USD. As a result, the person who has 24 bitcoins can be called a bitcoin millionaire. Check out the top five on that list.
American entrepreneur Michael Saylor
Michael Saylor is an American entrepreneur. He is known as a Bitcoin advocate. Known as one of the largest owners of Bitcoin, Saylor owns a large number of Bitcoins through his own company MicroStrategy. He is currently the executive chairman of the company. The seller buys bitcoins using his company's profits. As of September 30, 2023, he has 158,400 Bitcoins. This makes him the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin. Currently, the value of bitcoins owned by his company MicroStrategy is about 6.79 billion US dollars.
The story of Tyler and Cameron Winkleves
Winkleves twins is visible in the pages of different social worlds. At the beginning of the establishment of Facebook, they created a social network for university students called Kaneku. The twins later sued Mark Zuckerberg for plagiarism. The case was settled for US$6.5 million. Part of that money they invest in Bitcoin. The Winkleves brothers spent $11 million to buy Bitcoin in April 2013. At that time, the price of a bitcoin was a little over 100 dollars. According to Forbes magazine, the twin brothers each separately own 70,000 bitcoins, which is equivalent to about 3 billion US dollars.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a technology entrepreneur and one of the richest people in the world. A glance at his X account will tell you how interested he is in cryptocurrencies. There isn't a week that Elon doesn't share a strange post about crypto. Specifically, Elon is an investor in Bitcoin and Dogecoin. Those interested in crypto follow Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter) 24 hours a day. Elon's X message has caused the price of the crypto-world to go up and down many times. Elon owns Bitcoin through his company Tesla. Elon Musk owns 13 percent of Tesla. As of September 30, 2023, Tesla owns $184 million worth of digital assets. Tesla invested in Bitcoin in January 2021 under the Corporate Investment Policy. The amount of that investment was 1.5 billion USD. In March 2021, Tesla launched Bitcoin payment facility for car purchases. Elon has never disclosed his personal Bitcoin holdings.
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey is the co-founder of microblogging website Xer (formerly Twitter) and fintech company Block. Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter before the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk. Jack Bitcoin – World Famous Personality. Jack is known for supporting the peer-to-peer payment network Bitcoin and the social media protocol Nostra and the privacy-protecting browser Tor. Jack buys and sells Bitcoins from his own company Block. According to Block's September 2023 quarterly report, the firm sold $241 million worth of bitcoins to customers. As of September 30, 2023, the block held approximately $216 million worth of bitcoins.
Justin Sun
Justin Sun is another crypto entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of the blockchain protocol Tron (TRX). Sun is closely associated with Huobi, a crypto exchange based in Beijing, China. As of January 16, 2024, Sun is believed to hold 1,600 bitcoins worth $71 million, according to blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence.
Source: Techopedia
