From Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto to unfortunate crypto losers Rain Lohmus and James Howells, these are the 10 richest on-chain individuals:

1. Satoshi Nakamoto — $69,000,000,000.

Satoshi Nakamoto is the richest holder of crypto in the world. The entirety of this is from the #Bitcoin he mined from 2009 and 2010 and is stored across 22,000 addresses.

2. Justin Sun — $2,700,000,000.

Justin Sun is a Chinese entrepreneur and cryptocurrency pioneer best known as the founder of #TRON. He is also the CEO of BitTorrent and the owner of two crypto exchanges.

3. James Howells — $500,000,000.

An IT worker from Wales, he was an early pioneer of Bitcoin mining in 2010, using his personal laptop to mine approximately 8,000 BTC.

4. Stefan Thomas — $440,000,000.

Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer and early Bitcoin developer. In 2011, he was paid 7,002 $BTC for creating an animated video explaining how Bitcoin worked.

5. Rain Lohmus — $425,000,000.

Rain Lohmus represents one of crypto's most famous cautionary tales. The Estonian banker and co-founder of LHV Bank was an early believer in Ethereum, participating in its 2014 ICO. He invested approximately $75,000 and received a staggering 250,000 #ETH

6. Vitalik Buterin — $384,000,000.

Vitalik Buterin is the visionary programmer who co-created Ethereum. As one of the project's co-founders, he received an allocation of ETH at its genesis.

7. Clifton Collins — $316,000,000.

Clifton Collins is an Irish drug dealer who became a significant Bitcoin holder after acquiring 6,000 BTC in 2011-2012 with proceeds from selling cannabis. Bitcoin was valued at around $5 then.

8. Shixing Mao — $166,000,000.

Shixing Mao, also known as DiscusFish, is the co-founder and CEO of Cobo dot com, a prominent crypto wallet and custody solutions provider. Mao is also the founder of China's first Bitcoin mining pool — F2Pool.

9. Patricio Worthalter — $107,000,000.

Patricio Worthalter is an Argentinian entrepreneur and the founder of POAP (Proof of Attendance Protocol). POAP is a widely used protocol in the Ethereum ecosystem that allows event organisers to distribute crypto-badges (NFTs) to attendees, creating a verifiable record of life experiences.

10. James Fickel — $66,000,000.

James Fickel is a prominent cryptocurrency investor and trader. His journey to the crypto rich list started in 2016 when he invested $400,000 in Ethereum when the token was trading at around $0.80.