12. Charlie Shrem made $450 million
Charlie Shrem is one of the Bitcoin millionaires that was clever enough to buy large quantities of Bitcoin before its price went up. Bitcoin wasn't even up to $10 by the time he purchased an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin.
He had purchased large quantities of Bitcoin and combined it with other forms of crypto trading to make his big breakthrough in the crypto industry. In his early life, Charlie Shrem served some time in prison before being released in 2016.
Charlie Shrem was involved in creating the cryptocurrency Dash and proposed the creation of debit cards loaded with cryptocurrencies. He also created a crypto advisory firm called CryptoIQ.
