OREANDA-NEWS. The co-founder of the second largest cryptocurrency by capitalization, Vitalik Buterin, was included to the list of billionaires. This happened after the price of Ethereum (ЕTH) overcame the $3 thousand mark. At the time of writing, the value of Buterin's 365,000 ЕTH was $1.06 billion.

According to «Coingecko», the coin is valued at $3,180, showing a 10.4% increase over the past 24 hours. Over the week, the quotes rose by 37.8%. In 2019, «ForkLog» reported, that in addition to Ethereum, Buterin stores Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, and Zcash in his crypto wallet. At that time, it were valued at less than 10% of the value of the second-largest cryptocurrency stored by him. There are also KNC, MKR, OMG, and REP tokens in his crypto wallet.

Recall, that Buterin donated 100 ETH and 100 MKR (more than $600,000) to the fund to fight the coronavirus pandemic in India.

Over the past four months, ETH has grown 4 times and brought 300% profit. On the annual chart, ETH brought it's investors more than 1300% profit. The current price rally above $1,000 makes Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin the youngest cryptocurrency billionaire. He is 27-old now. According to Etherscan, Buterin owns more than 330 thousand ETH, respectively, their total value exceeded $1 billion.