The crypto sector-whose total market value exceeds a trillion dollars – has produced 22 billionaires and 88,000 millionaires according to new information; according to one of the reports on crypto wealth recently released by the company providing accommodation through investment Henley & Partners and prepared in collaboration with the Global Wealth survey company New World Wealth,the wealth of 6 of these billionaires belongs only to Bitcoin (Bitcoin-BTC), which also made rich for about half of the 88,200 a millionaire of whom 182 millionaires are classified as owners of digital assets worth more than 100 million dollars.
It should be noted here that the 88,200 crypto millionaires represent only 0.15% of the total global millionaires, 60 million according to the latest Global Wealth Report from UBS, whose data was collected by New World Wealth by tracking the transactions and spending habits of more than 150,000 high net worth individuals, as well as analyzing blockchain data and information publicly available on crypto trading platforms; the report database does not reveal the names of the people included in the report.
The study estimates that 425 million people around the world own digital currencies-about 5.3% of the global human population – of which 210 million people own bitcoin. In addition to wealth statistics, the report presents the “global cryptocurrency adoption index”, which ranks the countries of the world according to factors such as public adoption, availability of infrastructure factors, innovation, taxation and regulatory conditions.
In this regard, the countries of Singapore, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates are at the top of this list, which indicates the favorable conditions for the growth of the crypto sector provided by those countries. Although the United States ranks fifth on the list, it is the global leader in terms of both public adoption and infrastructure, followed by Canada and Australia, while the United Kingdom is the leader in innovation and technology.
It is worth mentioning that Singapore, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates rank first in Henley & Partners ‘ list of the best investment immigration programs, which provide digital asset investors with the possibility of obtaining alternative residence permits in these countries and the possibility of obtaining their citizenship.