The advent of cryptocurrencies has heralded many new millionaires and billionaires. Over the last decade, the growth of cryptocurrency has been tremendous and early investors in the industry are reaping big benefits. The cryptocurrency market is currently worth several billion and people have found wealth by being engaged in different parts of the industry. Today, there are many businessmen whose wealth has been chiefly acquired via cryptocurrency investment.

The following are the richest people in crypto industry.

Chris Larsen

Chris Larsen is the co-founder of Ripple. Ripple (XRP) has been a promising platform that brought a lot of vibrancy to the crypto world. This payment protocol oversees currency exchange and it also has a remittance network. Chris Larsen has had a long-standing career in the business world and he has specifically been involved in many tech projects. As a result of his involvement in Ripple, he is now worth over $5 billion as per 2018 estimates.

Changpeng Zhao

Changpeng Zhao is the founder and . He has been at the helm of the company since it was first launched and he has overseen its growth over the years. Binance is the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange by volume and it is also among the biggest by revenue as well. Changpeng Zhao has a tech background and he was involved in various other projects before delving into cryptocurrency. As of 2018, he is worth around $1.5 billion.

Joseph Lubin

The Ethereum platform is the most vibrant cryptocurrency platform in 2018. This platform was founded by Joseph Lubin alongside other co-founders. Lubin has a rich history in business and tech and he has been at the center of numerous tech startups. Because of the success of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin is now worth over $1 billion.

Michael Novogratz

Before he ventured into cryptocurrency, Michael Novogratz had been involved in the investment world as a fund manager. He had an illustrious career in this industry long before the advent of cryptocurrency. He later focused his energies on creating the cryptocurrency merchant bank Galaxy Digital. This venture has earned him fortunes and he is now worth around $1 billion dollars as per 2018 estimates.

Brock Pierce

Brock Pierce alongside his brothers, has been behind the successful venture capital firm Blockchain Capital (BCC). The firm has only been in existence for a short period but it has nevertheless made fortunes for the Pierce brothers. This firm received sufficient venture funding last year after its ICO announcement earlier on in the year. With over $700 million realized in the ICO, the firm had a solid start.

The firm has earned Brock Pierce fortunes and he is now worth around $1 billion by 2018 estimates.

Matthew Roszak

Matthew Roszak is the chairman and co-founder of Bloq. This company specializes in delivering enterprise infrastructure that is used by companies. Its unique application of blockchain to solve organizational problems has made it a pioneer in the area of business innovation. The company provides numerous solutions to companies and it is involved in active innovation. Matthew Roszak has made fortunes of around $1 billion as a result of his involvement with the company.

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Why do we care about green energy? Self-preservation is the most fundamental reason. Whether we are talking about self-preservation as a species or as an individual, survival is the first priority. I recently received a communication requesting signing of a petition informing the Federal Trade Commission of the insidious nature of what they are terming “greenscamming”. Everyone is aware products have cynically been labeled as “green” when they are not. The products or process may be harmful to the environment, but the consumer is lead to believe they are buying environmentally-friendly items.

This speaks to the quite enormous assumption that seems to have been made that our energy grid is our only choice. As people begin to talk about climate change, we are hearing that if we choose a certain type of fossil fuel, it will burn more cleanly.

While this may be true, the process of extraction may multiply harmful effects on climate change.

As this information is broadcast describing certain fossil fuels as being environmentally friendly, families are watching the destruction of their homes and towns due to the climate changes that one could argue are a bygone conclusion. If destruction of the environment isn’t of interest, surely we are all concerned about the day to day impact upon our own family. Each time a storm is forecast, we now live in fear of the grid going out. And yet, we stay plugged into the grid because we are advertised at that it is cheap and convenient.

Indeed, at the moment one most needs the energy, in the face of a deadly storm, is the moment we are most at risk of loosing access to grid power. The cost not only in dollars but violence and destruction of homes and personal property is the reality. Yet, sound-bite advertising, whether from government, an ad agency, or the so-called news reports, tells us the national energy grid is cheap and convenient.

The Importance of Renewable Energy

The responsible family leader will think long and hard before accepting an ad sound-bite as fact. The responsible family leader will inform their elected representatives precisely what is needed by this constituent in order to retain the constituent’s support. The legislation that has enabled the fossil fuel energy to function isn’t an accident. A case in point is exclusion of fracking from the Clean Water Act that allows fossil fuel companies unprecedented privilege to risk our water supply in pursuit of profits for the companies. This is known as the Halliburton Loophole.

So what can the beleaguered citizen to do? And I was just preparing to call the citizen a consumer, but everyone else must be as weary as I am of the new status of human being, soul, citizen, image-of-god, or any other decent description of man and woman—as renamed to consumer to fit into the brave new world of USA-as-corporation.

First, let your legislators know precisely what you think. I’ve heard on national news shows, the broadcasters say more than once, the legislators must take it upon themselves to make unpopular decisions for the constituents because the voters are often childlike! REALLY?? And what are our legislators? Have we looked around lately? Things ain’t going so well. Speak up for your family.

There will never be a better informer than your responsibility to your family. Trust yourself.

Consider using the money you would allocate to purchasing a new car, wonderful wardrobe, night out on the town, or any of thousands of little income drains, to create a long-lasting and durable energy base from which to function. This quite often is solar energy, but can also include wood stoves or pellet stoves for heat. It can include smaller homes that are easier to afford pertaining to energy use, and can also dramatically lower your costs in property taxes and maintenance.

Organize your community to establish a municipal wind energy system. This has been pleasingly successful in towns that have taken the initiative to get off the grid.

Consider car-pooling within your family. This is a wildly efficient way to save money. Though in the beginning the closeness may be irritating, many people come to find that reintegration into family can be fun and feel—well—family-like.

The fundamental inspiration of survival, and we are indeed talking about survival at this point, brings to mind food. We can change our relationship to food that will bring us gentle power, as the Shaker psalm sings

Tis the gift to be simple Tis the gift to be free Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be And when we find ourselves in the place just right Twill be in the valley of love and delight

If our delight becomes so basic we experiment with real food (as compared to fast food or GM food), we will find nourishment that is so inspirational, tasty, and fun, it may inform everything else in our life. Surely we have noticed the modern conveniences cost us dearly. They cost us in loosing freedom of choice of energy generation—they cost us in dedication to a job that may have stopped serving us well—they cost us by determination by others as to what we will buy.

Start With Yourself First

I won’t give up my washing machine. But I have never owned a dryer. It has never made sense to buy an expensive machine to do that which is inevitable. My computer is a delight and I count it as my servant. I’m rethinking my need to maintain a well-manicured lawn and will probably redirect my resources to vegetable and herb growing.

At a point in the future we see as a purchase a generator for when the grid goes down, and we are working toward a solar system. A friend has mentioned he has heard of a complimentary system whereby the solar energy system in the home will interact with an electric car, with the car battery renewing from the system and adding to the system.

This concept, I suspect, is eminently do-able. How many jobs could be generated from the maintenance and installation of this new system? Why aren’t our government researching these ideas? I suspect someone is. I also suspect we are hamstrung by the powers-that-be. A great place to start is survival in a forward-looking way. We can dream impossible dreams and make them real—we are human beings. The fact of being referred to as consumers may already have cowed legions of people into remaining in their stalls.

The truth is something so inspiringly different.

The choices are many and they are not to be made for our families by others. Rather than seeing ourselves as consumers, we can see ourselves as gentle warriors in the work of creating blossoming lifestyle for ourselves and our families.

Securing a green and renewable energy source for your home as a base from which to work is a fabulous start. Inform your legislators and the executive branch as to your requirements, and don’t feel so inclined to be a clog in the wheel of the industries that would grind people into consumers. Keep in mind the excellent term “greenscamming”, and inquire of the FTC as to when they will address this.