In the yearbook of his Oxford college, Ben Delo was voted the student most likely to become a millionaire — and the second most likely to end up in prison.
But the 34-year-old, who co-founded a cryptocurrency trading platform, has managed to surpass the first prediction, without falling victim to the second.
Delo is the first Briton to be revealed as a dollar billionaire who has made his fortune from bitcoin, as well as the nation’s youngest self-made billionaire.
But Delo did not strike lucky speculating in the notoriously volatile electronic currency. Instead he co-founded Hong Kong-based BitMex in 2014 and built the firm’s trading engine.
BitMex takes a fee from every transaction in the marketplace, regardless of whether the bitcoin price is soaring or
