{"id":240856,"date":"2021-05-03T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ethereum-co-founder-vitalik-buterin-becomes-billionaire-as-ether-hits-3k\/"},"modified":"2021-05-03T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T09:10:08","slug":"ethereum-co-founder-vitalik-buterin-becomes-billionaire-as-ether-hits-3k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ethereum-co-founder-vitalik-buterin-becomes-billionaire-as-ether-hits-3k\/","title":{"rendered":"# Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin becomes billionaire as Ether hits $3K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin becomes billionaire as Ether hits $3K <\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of the world\u2019s most popular smart contract platform, the Ethereum blockchain, has officially become a crypto billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Buterin\u2019s public Ether address that he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1050127616844259328?s=20\">described<\/a> as his main wallet back in 2018, has hit $1 billion on its balance following Ether\u2019s meteoric rise above a $3,000 price mark on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the address <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0xab5801a7d398351b8be11c439e05c5b3259aec9b\">holds<\/a>\u00a0around 333,500 Ether (ETH) , now worth $1.029 billion according to on-chain data from Etherscan, as ETH more than quadrupled in value from around $700 in the beginning of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>At publishing time, the world\u2019s largest altcoin is trading at $3,144, up 8.6% over the past 24 hours, with gains of 36% over the past seven days, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/ethereum\">data<\/a> from CoinGecko.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2021-05\/04f44916-4163-4249-a663-c58e9c615184.png\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ethereum price chart over the past 180 days. Source: CoinGecko<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to some online crypto players, 27-year-old Buterin now could be the youngest self-made billionaire in the cryptocurrency industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vitalik Buterin is the youngest crypto billionaire <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ETH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ETH<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethereum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethereum<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Crypto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Crypto<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7PfyPvbiC9\">pic.twitter.com\/7PfyPvbiC9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JUSTIN (@justintrimble) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justintrimble\/status\/1388967257515102212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Amid surging prices, Buterin has been generous with his crypto holdings. In late April, the Russian-Canadian programmer donated 100 Ether\u00a0and 100 Maker (MKR)\u00a0 tokens to a COVID-19 relief fund for India.<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Buterin\u2019s public Ether address that he described as his main wallet back in 2018, has hit $1 billion on its balance following&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDUvMmIxZmUyY2EtNTM0ZS00MjhlLWI1M2QtMTRmNjQ3N2M2ODViLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74937,74863,82402,74891,75326,74876,75578,75995,74355,4965],"class_list":["post-240856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-ether-price","tag-ethereum","tag-ethereum-2-0","tag-proof-of-stake","tag-proof-of-work","tag-vitalik-buterin","tag-adoption","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}