Michaël van de Poppe Net Worth and Bio 2026: Who Is CryptoMichNL?

Who Michaël van de Poppe is

Van de Poppe was studying economics at the University of Amsterdam in February 2017, when Bitcoin traded near $1,500. A friend in a pub mentioned altcoins. He bought DigiByte, watched it triple and fall back within a week, then started reading the Bitcoin white paper. He opened his X account in October 2017 and went full-time on crypto 11 months after his first trade, according to his interview with Cointelegraph Magazine.

Two further roles fill out the record. Cointelegraph lists him as a former writer based in Amsterdam, and his X bio names him host of the New Era Finance podcast. Older profiles, CoinLaunch among them, say he worked at the Amsterdam stock exchange. We found no primary record of that job, so we treat it as unconfirmed.

His audience grew in steps that third parties recorded with dates.

We found no independently dated 2026 count. The live figure sits on his profile.

MN Trading, MN Capital and MN Fund

His business followed the audience. The sequence below comes from conference bios, registrations and his own posts.

1. 2018: founded MN Trading, an educational crypto community (Consensus speaker profile).
2. November 2023: split the business into MN Consultancy, MN Capital and MN Academy (Paris Blockchain Week profile).
3. February to May 2025: MN Capital co-invested in Teneo, Combinder and the Acurast token sale (Caplight).
4. 6 June 2025: MN Fund registered with the AFM under the AIFMD light regime.
5. 1 July 2025: the fund started trading.

The AFM registration deserves a precise reading. A light manager registers with the AFM instead of holding a full licence, and the AFM's own market review notes that this regime carries no European passport. The fund's listed entry ticket is €100,000 (De Zaak). Retail investors in Canada, the US, the UK and Australia are not its audience.

MN Fund reports +10.13% for 2025 and a 34.49% lead over Bitcoin in its first seven months, per van de Poppe's post of 19 January 2026. These figures are the fund's own. We found no published audit, which is a gap in the record and not an accusation.

Michaël van de Poppe net worth: what the numbers support

Traders Union puts his net worth at $1.45 million as of 2026. CoinLaunch calls the same figure a minimum. Neither explains how it was built.

We documented four income lines. None comes with a public amount.

• Fees from MN Fund, with terms not published in the sources we checked.
• Equity and token stakes held through MN Capital in early-stage projects.
• Consultancy for high-net-worth clients through MN Consultancy.
• Paid X subscriptions that give access to his altcoin portfolio updates (Traders Union).

The personal side moves even more. On 16 May 2024 he sold all his Bitcoin and went into altcoins, expecting 900% to 4,500% over one to two years. By July 2025 that altcoin book sat 65% below its peak, by his own post. He later said that holding 95% in altcoins with almost no cash had been too risky. A portfolio that swings like this does not support a fixed net worth. We read the $1.45 million figure as a placeholder that sites copy from each other, nothing more.

Price calls on record and what happened

The table lists dated statements reported by media, set against later prices.

Our reading of the table is mixed, and we think it should be. On short-term structure he was close more than once. The March 2024 correction arrived later than the post implied, but its depth matched. His cycle targets are another matter. They missed by a factor of three, and the 2024 altcoin rotation underperformed simply holding Bitcoin. What earns him a mid-range score is not accuracy. It is that he published the losses himself.

Criticism and open questions

The documented criticism concerns strategy, not conduct. After the May 2024 Bitcoin sale, investor Fabio Andreatta replied that the move only increased his risk and was unlikely to beat Bitcoin. Van de Poppe also wrote that in August 2020 he went all-in on altcoins too early and watched them drop over 50% before they recovered.

We found no court ruling, regulator action or published investigation naming him as of 9 November 2026. One structural point remains open. MN Capital holds stakes in early-stage projects, and a venture investor with a feed of this size shapes demand for the tokens he discusses. Readers should check whether a post on a small-cap token discloses a position. This is a standard check, not an allegation.

His June 2026 picks included Ondo and NEAR. Earlier commentary tied NEAR to momentum in Zcash.

How to spot fake CryptoMichNL accounts

His official channels are X @CryptoMichNL, YouTube @michaelvdpoppe and the fund site mnfund.nl with the address info@mnfund.nl. Anything outside these needs verification.

These patterns point to an impersonator:

• A direct message offering to manage your money. MN Fund accepts capital through a registered fund with a €100,000 ticket, not through DMs.
• A "VIP" Telegram or WhatsApp group that asks for a deposit to join.
• A handle with an extra underscore, a swapped letter or a capital I in place of the l in "NL".
• Any request for a seed phrase or a wallet connection.
• A promise of fixed or guaranteed returns.

For a comparison of how other analysts document their records, see our profiles of Crypto Rover and Miles Deutscher.