🧑💻🧑💻🧑💻$BTC With Bitcoin worth US$107,000 per unit this Tuesday (17), Satoshi Nakamoto surpassed Bill Gates and three other people on Forbes' list of the world's greatest fortunes. The anonymous creator of the largest cryptocurrency in the world
world now accumulates an equivalent of US$ 117 billion
in BTC and is the 12th richest person in the world.
According to data from the analysis firm Arkham, Satoshi
Nakamoto has 1.1 million Bitcoin spread across 22,000 blockchain addresses. The amount was formed through mining between 2009 and 2011, and at the beginning of the network the creator of Bitcoin was the only validator, earning all the network's rewards.
At the time of writing this report, Bitcoin is
traded at US$107,783, after establishing a new
historic high of US$ 108,135 this Tuesday. In the year to
The increase is 158%, which caused Satoshi to be catapulted onto the list of the richest people: in January his fortune was worth US$50 billion, which left him around 30th place.
With the strong rise, the creator of Bitcoin surpassed Bill Gates,
who has an estimated fortune of US$107 billion.
In addition
of Microsoft founder, Satoshi also took the lead
from Jim Walton ($11 billion) and Rob Walton ($113
billion), heirs of WalMart, and Jensen Huang (USS 115
billion), president of Nvidia.
Now, whoever is immediately ahead of Satoshi is the
Spanish businessman Amancio Ortega, owner of Inditex, a textile business group that includes brands such as Zara and Massimo Dutti. The fashion mogul controls a fortune of US$119 billion.
