cryptowealthy

English

Alternative forms

• crypto-wealthy

Etymology

From crypto- +‎ wealthy.

Adjective

cryptowealthy (comparative more cryptowealthy, superlative most cryptowealthy)

1. (cryptocurrencies) Having acquired significant wealth in the cryptocurrency market.
   • 2018 January 13, Nellie Bowles, “Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     There’s a common paranoia among the crypto-wealthy that they’ll be targeted and robbed since there’s no bank securing the money, so many are obsessively secretive.

   • 2018, Kevin Werbach, “Connecting the Legal and the Technical”, in The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 219:

     While that could lead to cooperative arrangements of mutual assistance, it could also give the cryptowealthy all of the power and none of the limits of a liberal democratic society.

   • 2022 February 13, James Tarmy, “Meteorite Market: Crypto has helped finance buyers willing to pay thousands”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 193, number 258, page H3:

     “ […] one of the reasons for that is that there are a lot more people who’ve made their money in crypto and they tend to be younger,” Hyslop said. “They self-identify as crypto-wealthy; some who were bidding in the last slae realized for the first time that they could actually buy meteorites, and they were extremely enthusiastic.”

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cryptowealthy.