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Kurra Bewarse Username: Entrepreneur
Post Number: 3403 Registered: 05-2011
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 | Posted on Saturday, March 06, 2021 - 7:09 pm: | |
Crypto POWER PLAYERS 1. Coinbase: Brian Armstrong/Fred Ehrsam Investors: Fellow billionaire Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon Members:43 Million IMportant Fact: Less than 2% of the anonymous ownership accounts that can be tracked on Bitcoin’s blockchain control 95% of the digital asset (Researcher Flipside Crypto) 2. Panterra Capital Management: Dan Morehead Founded Pantera Capital Management in 2003 and launched the first U.S. crypto fund in 2013. 3. Digital Currency Group founder Barry Silbert has created an empire that touches every corner of the crypto world That’s a far cry from what Silbert has created at DCG. Among its nearly 300 investments and acquisitions it touches upon every part of the crypto market. Among them, it has stakes in Etherscan, the block explorer used for the Ethereum blockchain; Coindesk, a crypto news service; Genesis Global Trading, one of the largest over-the-counter crypto dealers and lenders; Chainalysis, a blockchain forensics firm; Decentraland, a virtual world built on Ethereum that sells plots of digital land and has its own cryptocurrency Mana. Silbert also created the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust in 2013, which is the largest crypto investment product with assets of about $31 billion. Silbert declined to comment. 4. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss bought their first Bitcoin stake in 2012 when it traded as low as $8 and then co-founded Gemini Trust Co., the first crypto firm to be regulated by New York state as a trust. |