{"id":41766,"date":"2021-05-03T13:32:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T10:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41766"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:15:14","slug":"ethereum-tops-3000-pushing-vitalik-buterin-to-billionaire-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-tops-3000-pushing-vitalik-buterin-to-billionaire-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum tops $3,000, pushing Vitalik Buterin to billionaire status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The co-founder of the second-largest cryptocurrency, Vitalik Buterin, has joined the ranks of billionaires. This came after Ethereum <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-price-climbs-above-3000-to-a-new-high\">$3,000<\/a> mark was crossed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd25Vitalik Buterin is the youngest crypto billionaire \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ETH?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ETH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethereum?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethereum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Crypto?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Crypto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7PfyPvbiC9\">pic.twitter.com\/7PfyPvbiC9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JUSTIN (@justintrimble) <a 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>At the time of writing, Buterin&#8217;s holdings stood at 333,520 ETH, worth $1.06 billion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buterin-2.png\" alt=\"\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0442 Ethereum \u0432\u044b\u0448\u0435 $3000 \u0432\u044b\u0432\u0435\u043b \u0412\u0438\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0430 \u0411\u0443\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u0432 \u043c\u0438\u043b\u043b\u0438\u0430\u0440\u0434\u0435\u0440\u044b\" class=\"wp-image-133603\" width=\"424\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buterin-2.png 566w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buterin-2-300x110.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0xab5801a7d398351b8be11c439e05c5b3259aec9b\">Etherscan<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Coingecko, the coin is valued at $3,180, up 10.4% in the last 24 hours. Over the past week, prices rose 37.8%.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, ForkLog reported that, in addition to Ethereum, Buterin was hodling Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin and Zcash. At that time, they were valued at less than 10% of the value of the second-largest cryptocurrency he held. Also in his portfolio were tokens KNC, MKR, OMG and REP.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Buterin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/vitalik-buterin-donates-over-600000-to-covid-19-relief-fund\">donated<\/a> 100 ETH and 100 MKR (roughly over $600,000) to a fund addressing the coronavirus pandemic in India.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The co-founder of the second-largest cryptocurrency, Vitalik Buterin, has joined the ranks of billionaires. This came after Ethereum price crossed the $3,000 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,1156,200],"class_list":["post-41766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41768,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41766\/revisions\/41768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}