In a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) session the creator of and one of the most famous people in the area, Vitalik Buterin, about his portfolio of .
It turned out that only in ether Buterin stores 350 thousand coins, which is equivalent to $51 million at the current rate and is about 1.7% of the current issue of ETH.
Also, the developer of said that he keeps a little , BCH, DOGE and ZEC in his wallets. At the same time, these assets make up less than 10% of its portfolio (excluding ETH), which makes senseless reproaches of a possible conflict of interest with investments.
Buterin has a significant amount of ERC-20 on his wallets, which function on the . These include from projects such as Kyber Network, Maker, Omisego, and Augur. The amounts in the are also not too large and do not exceed 10% of the volume of stored ether.
In addition to income from the Foundation over the past year, Buterin received a salary from other projects, including the unclear volume of of projects in which he worked as an advisor.
Vitalik Buterin’s assets are not limited to — he owns shares of the British company Clearmatics and the Starkware project. He has an interest in startup L4, which is developing a decentralized “Internet 3.0”. However, in this case, the interest is not financial.
Note that at the end of 2018, Buterin donated about $300,000 to three startups. Three projects that received 1,000 ETHs each were Prysmatic Labs, ChainSafe Systems and Sigma Prime.
Author: Marko Vidrih
Published at Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:14:59 +0000
