Ethereum’s founder, Vitalik Buterin stated that he holds less than ten per cent of his Ethereum savings as BTC, BCH, ZEC, and DOGE.
Additionally, he mentioned that he is also holding ONG, MKR, REP, and KNC altcoins in his portfolio. As we all know, he is also the shareholder of Starkware and Clearmatics companies as well.
Starkware is a company that is working on “Full Proof Stack” development for STACK’s ZKP (Zero-Knowledge Protocol). On the other hand, Clearmatics is a company which produces next-generation cleaning machines for the OTC markets.
Vitalik Buterin has declared that he has been earning a salary from the EF (Ethereum Foundation) for the latest 12 months. And he added that he had purchased an unknown amount of the above altcoins he mentioned.
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Non-Financial relations with brilliant companies
Above all, Vitalik Buterin also emphasised his non-financial interest on “L4” company which claims to build “Web 4“. He pointed out that one of his projects is mutual smart-contracts.
Additionally, Mr Buterin has got a non-financial relation with EDCON, Plasma Group, and EthGlobal companies. Plasma Group is the company behind “Layer 2” scaling method project.
EthGlobal organises and coordinates hackathons globally. On the other hand, Edcon was one of the leading conferences of 2018.
L4 has received a grant of 1.5 million USD. StarkWare’s 2018 grant value was 4 million USD. EthGlobal has managed to gain 200,000 USD grant.
Value of Vitalik Buterin’s Altcoin portfolio
Let’s have a look at Vitalik Buterin’s crypto money portfolio; Vitalik is holding 350,000 ETH which currently worths 50 million USD in value.
This is Vitalik Buterin @VitalikButerin (co-founder of #Ethereum) portfolio besides his $ETH holdings: $BCH $BTC $DOGE $ZEC
Others: $KNC $MKR $OMG $REP #Cryptocurrency pic.twitter.com/4XtowF72Zd
— CryptoCurrency Wire 🚨 (@the_crypto_wire) February 20, 2019
It means that he has got less than five million USD value of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Zcash and Dogecoin in his crypto portfolio. And we can calculate that his OMG, MKR, REP (token of Augur), and KNC altcoins equal to five million USD as well.
Last but not least, he most probably added 20 million USD fiat money to his portfolio after the 30,000 unit Ether sale in December 2017.
