Coinbase CEO reportedly buys LA mansion for $133M

Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase — the biggest cryptocurrency trade in the US — reportedly made a multi-million-dollar actual property buy on the finish of 2021.

Armstrong purchased a $133-million Los Angeles property from Japanese entrepreneur Hideki Tomita in December, The Wall Road Journal reported on Monday, citing nameless individuals aware of the matter.

In keeping with The Wall Road Journal, Tomita initially bought the true property for $85 million in 2018. The brand new deal allegedly marks the largest house buy ever accomplished within the L.A. space.

Previous to being offered to Tomita, the Bel-Air property was previously owned by Ellen Bronfman Hauptman, the daughter of billionaire Seagram’s inheritor Charles Bronfman.

The property features a 19,000-square-foot mansion that includes a theater, a gymnasium and a double-height eating room. The property additionally reportedly had a 6,600-square-foot visitor home designed by Paul Williams.

Armstrong co-founded Coinbase with American enterprise govt and investor Fred Ehrsam again in 2012. The trade has been rising massively lately, turning into the biggest crypto buying and selling platform within the U.S. when it comes to buying and selling volumes and going public on Nasdaq in April 2021.

With a reportedly 19% stake in Coinbase, Armstrong had an estimated internet price of $14.7 billion as of November 2021, being one of many world’s richest crypto traders alongside FTX trade founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Armstrong was additionally known as the world’s biggest crypto billionaire by China’s Hurun Analysis Institute in March 2021.

Coinbase didn’t instantly reply to Cointelegraph’s request for remark. This text shall be up to date pending any new data.

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Crypto executives have been more and more shopping for actual property just lately. Jonathan Yantis, co-founder of the nonfungible token platform Worldwide Asset eXchange, reportedly purchased a 70-acre property outdoors Denver for $12.5 million in mid-December.

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the world’s largest crypto trade, Binance, reportedly bought his first home in Dubai in October 2021. He beforehand mentioned that he didn’t personal any actual property as of April 2021, claiming that he sold his apartment in Shanghai back in 2006 to purchase Bitcoin (BTC).