Cryptocurrencies
Ether Creator Claims He's No Billionaire in Twitter Crypto Fight
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Vitalik Buterin, one of the most influential people in crypto, says he’s not a digital-currency billionaire.
In a Twitter post, Buterin, who helped start the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, Ether, and continues to drive the development of underlying technology, said he never personally held more than 0.9 percent of the cryptocurrency, which has a market cap of $20.1 billion. Buterin posted a link Wednesday to his digital wallet, which currently holds 365,003 Ether, valued at about $73 million, and includes gifts and charity donations. Buterin said he has other wallets, "but they’re quite small relatively speaking."