After the launch, Tate dedicated himself full time to DigiByte’s development. Since then, funding for the project has come through donations to the DigiByte foundation. It’s also reasonable to assume that Tate and others involved in the project hold a significant amount of DGB (the DigiByte coin) from mining and initial transactions. Their wealth would increase any time the price of DGB increases. Speaking of other people working on the DigiByte team, it’s difficult to find much out about the staff supporting the project. The website doesn’t contain information about the team. A little digging on LinkedIn turned up a total of five developers who claim to work for DigiByte, including Tate