Barry Silbert

Barry Silbert is an American entrepreneur and investor who is the CEO of the Digital Currency Group. As of 2022, he was estimated to have a net worth of $3.2 billion.

Career

In 2004, Silbert founded SecondMarket, an online marketplace for shares in private technology companies. It was valued at $200 million in 2011. It was acquired by Nasdaq in 2015.
Silbert began buying up Bitcoin in 2012.
In October 2015, Silbert founded Digital Currency Group.
In November 2024, Silbert announced that he was launching Yuma, a decentralized artificial intelligence company.
In August 2025, Silbert returned as chairman of Grayscale Investments, a subsidiary of the Digital Currency Group, following leadership changes at the company.
In January 2026, Silbert was named in a $14 billion RICO amended complaint, which alleged that he and Digital Currency Group had directed "block withholding" attacks against a Pennsylvania-based mining pool to rig the Bitcoin "Block Size War" and establish Bitcoin as "Digital Gold," thus artificially inflating its price at the expense of American investors.