Early users of cryptocurrency almost begged others to join — and! Most people turned them down because they were geeks with yet another bad technology. Based on how it was received at first, people thought it would die out quickly. Instead, the space started to grow slowly and steady as more and more people got interested. Even celebrities who invested in crypto early did so years after the first Bitcoin exchange.

Clearly, it’s the year 2022, because the Crypto market is now a big deal on the internet. Many people who didn’t join in the beginning are now investing in cryptocurrencies instead of wishing they had.

Few famous people who have put money into Crypto

Reese Witherspoon

After selling her media company, the American actor Reese Witherspoon had a lot of money to put toward other projects.

So, at the beginning of January 2022, she posted on Twitter that she had bought her first Ethereum. Before that, she had sent out a few tweets in support of coders working on Crypto and blockchain.

Reese is also a big supporter of the World of Women NFT line. She talks about it a lot on her Twitter page, which shows how much she likes it. She has also backed the metaverse and told people to get ready so they don’t get left behind.

Maisie Williams

In the huge HBO historical TV show Game of Thrones, she goes by the name Arya Stark. The English actor rose to the top of TV fame when she was cast as the main character in a very popular show.

In November 2020, Maisie Williams asked her Twitter fans whether it was better to go long on Bitcoin or short on Bitcoin. And, of course, many people who didn’t agree with her told her not to join the “bandwagon.” She bought it anyway, and she told her friends to thank them later.

Lionel Messi

Messi was paid a big part of his signing fee in the fan coin $PSG. He also backed the Israeli company Sirin Labs, which makes a blockchain-based mobile operating system.
Sirin Labs is making the first smartphones with a bitcoin operating system (OS).
Messi also put money into the new trend in NFT, called the metaverse. In August 2021, his first real NFT, called Messiverse, went live.

Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton is the daughter to the famous Hilton family. She is one of the most well-known people in America. Paris Hilton is an actress, singer, DJ, model, socialite, and businessman. She is known as a “jack of all trades” in the entertainment world.
In an interview with CNBC in 2021, Paris said that she started investing in Crypto long before the boom. Some online rumors put the date between 2015 and 2018, even though she didn’t say exactly when. She also joined NFT before the boom in 2020.

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson was one of the first famous people to start using Crypto. In 2015, “Iron Mike” joined forces with “Bitcoin Direct,” a company that makes Bitcoin ATMs. With the help of the relationship, his famous face tattoo was put on the ATMs.
In addition to his stake in Solana, “Iron Mike,” his NFT collection, also has money in the Cool Cats NFT collection.

Jay-Z

Jay-Z is not interested in crypto for fun. Through his business company Marcy Ventures Partners (MVP), he has made a number of deals that touch on different parts of Crypto. Jay-Z has invested in Alchemy, Ledger, and spatial LABS (sLABS), among other cryptocurrencies.
Not only that, but Jay-Z and Square CEO Jack Dorsey also put 500 Bitcoins into a trust that they set up together. The trust will pay for developing Bitcoin in Africa and India. Because he loves NFTs, he also helped fund the Series A of the NFT platform Bitski. He likes NFTs and also owns some of them, such as Cryptopunks and RTFKT Clone X.
To top it all off, Jay-Z is on the board of Square, a company that wants to build an open Bitcoin market.

Elon Musk

Without a doubt, the most important person in Crypto. Elon Musk is an original businessman and the richest person in the world right now. He has built a great image as a major force that moves the market, especially Dogecoin, with his tweets and actions.
Even though we don’t know how much Crypto Elon Musk has, we do know that he has at least 0.25 Bitcoin, which a friend gave him a few years ago. But Tesla, the company he works for, has put $1.5 billion into Bitcoin. In 2021, Tesla also began taking Bitcoin as a form of payment.

Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Fallon, who hosts the Tonight Show, got the NFT bug. He told Beeple, the most famous NFT artist in the world, that he bought “an ape,” which is a collection of NFTs from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) through MoonPay.
As expected, the news quickly caused a stir on the internet, and NFT fans went to Opensea to see the exact NFT that the show host bought.

Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg is one of the few famous people who started using Crypto early on. In 2013, he let people pay for his new record with Bitcoin. One copy of the record could be bought for 0.3 Bitcoin, which is about $11,000 at the current value of Bitcoin.
It is not clear how much money Snoop Dogg made or how much his portfolio is worth right now.
He owns Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and other digital currencies. His NFT portfolio has collections like Cryptopunks, Cool Cats, Sandbox, and more, and he has always said that he believes in cryptocurrencies.

Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban is a billionaire investor, TV star, and media mogul. He is best known for the Shark Tank series.
In the early days of Coinbase, the billionaire put money into a number of coins. He has also put a lot of money into NFTs, and as a collector, he has one of the biggest collections of NFTs.
Mark Cuban recently said that 80% of his investments outside of Shark Tank, like UniKoinGold, are in Crypto.
Also, in 2019, his NBA team, the Dallas Mavericks, started taking Bitcoin payments for tickets through BitPay.

Ashton Kutcher

Ashton surprised everyone by leaving a very successful actor job to focus on investing. So far, his investments have been successful.
His investment career didn’t start all at once. Ashton and his friends started the investment company “A-Grade” in 2010. The goal was to put money into new tech companies.
Ashton has invested in well-known tech companies like Uber and Airbnb. He has also invested with billionaire Mark Cuban in a couple of Crypto startups, like BitPay and UniKoinGold.

Serena Williams

Many people were surprised to hear that the famous tennis player who has won 23 grand slam titles also owns a venture capital company.
In 2019, her venture capital company, Serena Capital, said it was going to invest in Coinbase, but then changed its mind. Serena Ventures, on the other hand, still has money in “Cointracker,” which keeps track of Crypto investments and taxes.

Floyd Mayweather Jr

In 2017, the best welterweight boxer in the world shared on his Facebook and Twitter pages a picture of himself holding up a card that said he was spending Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other types of cryptocurrencies in Beverly Hills.
In hindsight, most people agree that the post was a way to say that he had invested in different types of cryptocurrency.
Soon after, Mayweather’s connection with Crypto became clearer when he pushed the ICO of Stox $STX on his Instagram page and talked about how he had invested in the coin.

Tom Brady

In an interview, Tom Brady said that he wished part of his pay with the Buccaneers was paid in Crypto. This shows how interested he is in the Crypto environment.
FTX, a well-known Crypto exchange and one of the biggest in the world, got the message and offered Tom a multimillion-dollar business deal.
Tom is also one of the people who started the Autograph.io NFT app.

Naomi Osaka

Who is number one in the world and has won four single grand slams, said in an interview with the financial magazine Bloomberg that the rise of Dogecoin and its popularity on the internet did catch her eye.
After that, Naomi jumped into NFT with a project she did with her sister, Mari Osaka. The projects that the player has signed are on the Autograph NFT website.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow has been giving advice on living and investments for a long time. She does this through her lifestyle brand “Goop,” which she owns. She also joined Abra in 2017 to be the wallet’s face and a counselor.
Gwyneth, along with other partners, put money into the “Terawulf” cryptocurrency mining business in December 2021. Paul Prager, the CEO of Terawulf, says that the company’s Bitcoin mining is 100% carbon-free.

The Winklevoss Brothers

The Winklevoss Brothers are twin brothers who used to be on the US Olympic rowing team. They are best known for fighting the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, on the grounds that he stole the idea for a social network from them while they were at Harvard.
As part of the deal, the twin brothers got $65 million, and they put a lot of it into Bitcoin at the beginning of 2013. So, when the crypto market took off, they became the first famous crypto billionaires in the world.
Now, the brothers are the main owners of the cryptocurrency market Gemini, and they both own about 70,000 Bitcoin and other coins.

Jack Dorsey

Jack Dorsey, who started and runs the financial company Square and was the CEO of Twitter before that, is one of the most well-known people in the world who supports Bitcoin. In 2017, Jack became very interested in Bitcoin and has been a big part of the Bitcoin campaign ever since. In an interview in 2020, he said that he buys Bitcoin every week for several thousand dollars. He is a big fan of “buy the dip,” which means to buy when the price goes down.
Aside from the Bitcoins he owns personally, Jack’s Square is a major Bitcoin investor, having bought a total of 4,709 Bitcoins in October 2020. Late in 2021, Jack quit his job as CEO of Twitter to run Square himself.

Richard Branson

The British business tycoon who started the Virgin Group is known for two things: being smart at business and doing fun things that set records.
Richard Branson took part in a $30 million funding round for BitPay, a tool for handling payments using Bitcoin. But no one knows how much he has put into the company. Still, based on his other risky business moves, his investment in BitPay is likely to be a big deal.

Russell Okung

Russell Okung, an NFL offensive tackle, was one of the loudest and most constant people in sports to support Bitcoin. In December 2020, he got a lot of attention when he asked to get half of his $13 million pay in Bitcoin.
But it didn’t take long for his dream to come true, thanks to the Bitcoin paycheck answer “Strike.” Russell told everyone about this when he wrote, “Got paid in Bitcoin.”
The value of the $6.5 million in Bitcoin, which was half of the $13 million, went up quickly as the price of the king cryptocurrency went up.