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Would you like to be one of those millionaires from bitcoin? Everything is possible, if you understand the rules of the game, and can predict the fluctuations of currency. If you need some motivation and inspiration, we hope the stories of these people will encourage you. While Bitcoins allows for anonymity, using strings of letters and numbers to identify sources of transactions, certain people have publicly revealed that they’re enthusiastic users. Here are the people with the biggest known stakes in Bitcoin.

1. Barry Silbert is the Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group. Sitting at the epicenter of the bitcoin and blockchain industry, DCG is a global enterprise that builds, supports, and invests in companies all over the world.
A pioneer in bitcoin investing, Barry established himself in 2012 as one of the earliest and most active investors in the industry. In 2015, he founded DCG and today, DCG is one of the industry’s most prolific investors, backing more than 120 companies in 30 countries around the world, including Coinbase, Ripple, BitPay, and Circle.
Prior to DCG, Barry was the founder and CEO of SecondMarket, a venture-backed technology company that was acquired by Nasdaq. Barry has received numerous awards and accolades including being named Entrepreneur of the Year by both Ernst & Young and Crain’s, and being selected to Fortune’s prestigious “40 under 40” list.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Barry worked as an investment banker in New York. However, he recognized the potential of this new market to change the future of technology and finance and became a cryptocurrency millionaire.

He got 48,000 Bitcoins in an auction held by the U.S. Marshals Service in 2014 (the government had seized much of the currency from Silk Road, an online marketplace it said was used for illegal transactions). Bitcoin was then worth $350.

2. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are a pair of American Olympians and entrepreneurs in the late 30s. They studied at the prestigious Harvard University between 2000 and 2004, graduating with BA degrees in economics. The twins also rowed for the US in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

The Winklevoss brothers, who famously won a $65 million settlement from a lawsuit against Facebook in 2011, later used some of that money to purchase what they said was $11 million worth of bitcoin in 2013. That was about 1% of all bitcoin in circulation at the time. They later also spent almost $1 million to buy more bitcoin later in 2013, right after Silk Road was seized by the FBI.

In October 2015, Gemini, the twins’ Bitcoin exchange, received approval to launch from the New York State Department of Financial Services. The exchange is targeted at both first-time users and professional traders.

And in May 2018, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss won a patent for settling exchange-traded products (ETPs) with digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ripple, Dogecoin and Ethereum.

3. Kingsley Advani
Kingsley is a Founder & Partner at Chainfund Capital – a world-leading emerging technology fund. He has been featured on CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Yahoo Finance and ADVFN.

He analyzed the behavior of cryptocurrencies and the potentials of blockchain technologies for the world and decided to sell his laptop, his headphones and empty his bank accounts, obtaining a total of $ 34,000 which immediately traded for bitcoins and other small projects based on blockchain technology.
6 months later the increase of bitcoin from $ 1300 to $ 19000 (1461% profit.), the increase of Ethereum from $ 70 to $ 1300 (1857% profit.) and the NEO from $ 1.3 to $ 180 (13846% profit.) allowed him to obtain a seven-figure fortune.

Kingsley was not the typical student who bought bitcoins in his house and had a stroke of luck. Mr. Advani has a long academic path that supported his decisions. He studied Data Mining at Stanford University, got a Bachelor of Finance Exchange, Alternative Investments at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Bachelor’s Degree on Finance & Economics at the University of Melbourne.
Also, having worked for the Finest Games, Uber, Airbnb, IBM and BNP Paribas allowed him to accumulate enough experience to back his decision.

4. Ian Balina
Last year 100X Advisors traveled to over 35 countries evangelizing blockchain while investing in 15 different blockchain startups in 15 different countries.

A former Analytics Evangelist at IBM, Ian has brought a data-driven, “money-ball” approach to investing in blockchain startups, called “Token Metrics”.

Unlike “bitcoin made me a millionaire” stories above who mostly invested in BTC in the early days when prices were extremely low, Balina invested in a number of ICOs of emerging cryptocurrencies. The “money ball” approach to ICO investments which he kept a public record of in a Google docs spreadsheet where he shared which ICOs he was investing in along with ones he passed on, allocating a points system based on things like development team, advisors and whether they had a working prototype.

Another aspect of Balina’s story that’s unique is that he often posted screenshots from his Blockfolio app to show social media followers on a regular basis how his investments were doing over time. His wealth started at around $100,000 and has since reached a peak of around $6 million.

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Disclaimer: It's just my pure online research, i'm not representing any company and don't have any investment offer.

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