[olalonde]

Aside from the fact that "white men" isn't a meaningful "group of people", the majority of people who became rich from crypto were not rich to begin with. In the early days, it was mostly nerds, programmers and young people who became interested in the technology. VCs and wealthy investors were relatively late to the party.

[newacc9]

A lot of "sound money", goldbug types got in early like Trace Mayer and Max Kaiser and SV guys who had a lot of time on their hands because they were rich from some earlier Internet thing, like Richard Heart and the Winklevosses.

[olalonde]

A lot did but they were vastly outnumbered by average geeks.