7 Largest Well Known Bitcoin Investors In The World

Tim Draper

Tim Draper is perhaps the biggest Bitcoin enthusiast in the investor community in the US. The 59-year-old billionaire, who is the founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Draper Associates, rose to prominence in 2014 when he won the auction conducted by the US Marshals Service to sell the seized Bitcoins from the banned marketplace Silk Road. Draper took home all 30,000 Bitcoins from the auction. The price of a Bitcoin at that time was $645 apiece. Today, one Bitcoin is worth over $4,000. According to an estimate, Draper had made over $16 million from the Bitcoin industry so far, and that was well before the currency’s recent meteoric rise.

In an interview in May, Draper revealed his plans to acquire Tezos, a new blockchain platform. Tezos launched its initial coin offering (ICO) in May and raised $232 million worth of bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) coins. Earlier this month, Draper acquired a 10% stake in Credo, a cryptocurrency startup that wants to solve the problem of email spamming in an innovative way.

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