We saw how last year the price for one Bitcoin skyrocketed to almost 20.000$. Many people saw the an opportunity and bought Bitcoin with the intention to make fast profits. Others waited patiently and made calculated investments and are still living off as Bitcoin millionaires. Let’s find out some of the millionaires.
1. Yifu Guo
Yifu engineered the first Bitcoin miner. He was a NYU student who created the first Bitcoin mining company. He got rich by selling miners right after they gained extreme popularity. Building this miners made Yifu one of the first millionaires despite him leaving the company. It’s estimated that he made about $5 million.
2. Tony Gallipi
Mr. Gallipi founded a company for creating a BTC payment processor. He became rich when his company started sealing contracts with retailers and started making $1 million worth of payments a day. This brought Tony a stunning income of $20 million.
3. Dave Carlson
He is also a founder of a mining company which reportedly he use to run it from his own basement. Dave’s fortune is now worth $ 30 million.
4. Jared Kenna
This guy seems to have a lot of patience when investing in cryptocurrencies. He invested in Bitcoin at a price of only 20 cents. When the price started going up, he already had invested serious amount of money so with the profit he decided to open a mining company. Later he also opened a craft brewery and his fortune is worth about $35 million.
5. Charlie Shrem
He is a very controversial character in the Bitcoin community. He also made a ton of money because he invested when the price was extremely low. He founded a couple of companies but he was also found guilty of money laundering. His fortune is worth $45 million.
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