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Mike Novogratz Bought 30,000 BTC at $95, bought 500,000 ETH at $0.99

Mary Liu

Summary: Mike Novogratz, Galaxy Digital founder and CEO, revealed in an interview with Alex Saunders in Nugget’s News podcast that his first attempt in the crypto market was to purchase 30,000 Bitcoins, at a price of approximately $95. He also bought 500,000 ETH from Vitalik at a price of $0.99.  He said: "My first Ether, I ...

Mike Novogratz, Galaxy Digital founder and CEO, revealed in an interview with Alex Saunders in Nugget’s News podcast that his first attempt in the crypto market was to purchase 30,000 Bitcoins, at a price of approximately $95. He also bought 500,000 ETH from Vitalik at a price of $0.99. 

He said: "My first Ether, I actually bought from Vitalik [Buterin]… I met him once at a dinner and he remembered me but didn’t know me but they thought it was good for the community to have a Wall Street guy buying, so I bought half a million Ether at $0.99."

"He changed the price on me at the last minute from $0.98 to $0.99, because I waited too long and the price went up. And then I really became much more of a crypto maniac."

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