“By the way, I’m not a billionaire anymore,” he wrote in the comments to one of his Twitter posts about the recent activity on the social network of SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

In 2021, a native of Russia, Vitalik Buterin, entered the list of the most notable new billionaires according to Forbes USA.

The fortune of the founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform and its cryptocurrency was estimated by the magazine at $1.3 billion. 

In 2017, Buterin met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).