The richest one percent of people on the planet own 50.1% of the world's capital, and in twelve years this figure will increase to 64%. This data is provided by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse. The UK Parliament's forecast also contains interesting figures. According to their data, the wealth of the rich is growing twice as fast as the income growth of the remaining 99% of the world's population.
Maintaining such a pace will lead to the concentration of 305 trillion. in the hands of 1% of the population.
The House of Commons report notes the same trend in income inequality. The increase in financial assets of the wealthy segments of the population occurs due to large investments in business and shares. Recently, cryptocurrency can be added to this list of investment assets. The growing interest of establishment giants in the crypto market is intensifying.
The company George Soros intends to start trading digital assets, Rockefeller familyhas agreed to cooperate with the CoinFund fund.
BitInfoCharts claims that the number of crypto millionaires cannot be accurately determined. There are at least 20 thousand of them, according to the most conservative estimates, and perhaps ten times more. At the same time, most of the new millionaires made their fortune from the rise of Bitcoin last year. According to these findings and the emerging trends in the cryptocurrency market, a significant share of the richest people on the planet in the future will be large crypto-businessmen.
Already today, the largest cryptocurrency wallets store 424,407 BTC, which is approximately equivalent to $2.9 billion.
Predicting an increase in the price of cryptocurrency by 2025, experts predict an increase in wealth and the number of crypto-millionaires in the near future.
Early this year Forbes presented a list of “The Richest People in the Cryptocurrency World”. To be included in the list, an applicant must have a minimum wealth of $350 million. According to the list, the first cryptocurrency billionaires were found.
They turned out to be:
Chris Larsen, 57 years old - $7.5 billion - $8 billion,
Joseph Lavigne, 53 years old - $1 billion - $5 billion,
Changpeng Zao, 41 years old - $1.1 billion - $2 billion,
Winklevoss brothers, 36 years old - $900 million - $1.1 billion.
This ranking is in addition to the list of the 400 richest Americans, which the magazine has been publishing since 1982.
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