Time billionaires: Forbes names the richest man in the industry of cryptocurrency
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This year Chris Larsen hit on 383 place among the richest people according to Forbes. While Larsen was the first who accumulated his fortune exclusively through cryptocurrencies.
According to the Forbes 400, as Chris Larsen reaches $ 2.1 billion. The first place went to Jeff Bezos, who managed to earn 78.5 billion dollars per year. Prior to that, the palm 24 years in a row was held by bill gates.
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It Turns out that the world's richest people getting richer. This year the threshold for entry into the Forbes 400 higher than ever. Average condition among the members of the top also reached a record value — $ 7.2 billion. According to Credit Suisse, in 2018 one percent richest people in the world have accumulated more than half of all the wealth in the world. By 2030, this number will grow by two-thirds.
Chris Larsen owns around of 5.19 billion XRP tokens and shares in Ripple. We will remind, in January, Forbes estimated the fortune of Larsen at 37.3 billion dollars. Then the price of ripple's made up 2.39 to the dollar, but after the correction of the stock market value of XRP went down to 47 cents.
Ripple CEO brad Garlinghouse in January «cost» about 9.5 billion dollars. However, due to the volatility of XRP and fall of prices Arlinghaus fell off the Forbes 400 in the beginning of this year.
Ripple still can bring both billionaires (and ordinary investors) a lot of money. News about the launch of a major innovation propanil the price of XRP in late September.
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A List of magazine published in February this year. In it, Larsen ranked first, followed by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin and CEO Binance Zhao Canpan.
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