The total capitalization of cryptocurrencies reaches almost 400 billion dollars. And these 30 people are leading the digital revolution, which is changing modern financial markets and social institutions.
This list presents scientists, engineers and journalists — all those who promote cryptocurrencies, create new tokens and, of course, analyze the market situation. It is expected that 2018 will also be a good year for bitcoin and blockchain, and these people will not stop there, continuing to surprise us with new ideas.
- Vitalik Buterin, @VitalikButerin
Number of Twitter followers: 737 thousand.
Vitalik is the Creator of the Ethereum blockchain platform, which acts as a worldwide computer for decentralized applications. The rate of its cryptocurrency — ether — in 2017 soared to heaven. In addition, Buterin is the co-founder (and former editor) of cryptogamae Bitcoin Magazine.
- Charlie Lee, @SatoshiLite
Number of Twitter followers: 758 thousand.
Lee is the Creator of litecoin and former technical Director of Coinbase.Now he is involved in some projects related to bitcoin. Before doing cryptocurrencies, Lee worked as an engineer in companies like Google and Guidewire software.
Brian is a co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, an open financial system and a cryptocurrency exchange. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and Economics and a master's degree in computer science from rice University. In addition, Armstrong starred in the 2014 film "rise of bitcoin".
Roger is considered the first person in the world to invest in bitcoin startups (including Bitcoin.com Blockchain.com, Zcash, BitPay, Kraken and Purse.io). And his company MemoryDealers, which produces parts for computers, became one of the first online retailers to accept bitcoins as payment. Today, Roger is often invited by the speaker to bitcoin conferences around the world.
Andreas is the author of the famous books" bitcoin Development "and" Internet money", which tells about the global importance of bitcoin. He serves as a speaker at various events related to bitcoin. Also, he is often invited as an expert on litigation, which deals with cybersecurity and cryptocurrency technologies.
- Nick Sabo, @NickSzabo4
Number of Twitter followers: 201 thousand.
Nick Sabo is one of the pioneers in the field of blockchain and cryptocurrency. He formulated the concept of smart contracts, which today play a fundamental role in the development of cryptocurrencies. In addition, he created digital gold (Bit Gold) — a decentralized digital currency, which is a direct precursor to the architecture of Bitcoin.
Don is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for blockchain studies (BRI), which tries to formulate clear principles for organizing the bitcoin community and making decisions within it. In addition, he is the author of the bestseller "blockchain Revolution", which describes how cryptocurrencies and blockchain will change our world.
Gavin is one of the first developers of bitcoin, and the lead developer of Bitcoin Core it has appointed himself Satoshi Nakamoto. Engaged in the development of bitcoin since 2010, Andresen founded the Bitcoin Foundation for the promotion of cryptocurrencies and in recent years, he pays much attention to the work in this organization.
Cihan is a co-founder of BITMAIN, which sells devices with ASIC chips for bitcoin mining. (Today BITMAIN is the world's largest producer of BTC mining equipment: 70% of bitcoins are mined using these ASIC miners.) Wu studied Economics and psychology at Beijing University.
Laura Shin is a senior editor of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies at Forbes magazine and one of the founders of Forbes Fintech 50 rating. She also runs a podcast Unchained devoted to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain. Shin holds a master of arts degree from Columbia University school of journalism.
Power is the Board of the open banking platform 9Spokes. He is an expert on cryptocurrencies, published seven books and spoke at 1,000 conferences in 56 countries. Besides, Power is a member of the Board of Directors or a consultant of numerous blockchain and bitcoin startups around the world.
- Eric Voorhees, @ErikVoorhees
Number of Twitter followers: 274 thousand.
Voorhes runs the company ShapeShift and has a blog on the website MoneyAndState.com in which he writes about the separation of money from the state and that this will happen through bitcoin. In addition, He co-founded the coinapult startup, and in 2013 sold his other Satoshi Dice startup for $ 11.5 million in bitcoins.
Winklevoss is the Director of Winklevoss Capital and co-founder and head of the Gemini next generation digital asset exchange. Winklevoss has long been a fervent supporter of bitcoin and is considered the world's first bitcoin billionaire due to the fact that in 2013 he invested in this cryptocurrency 11 million dollars.
Silbert is the founder and CEO of DigitalCurrencyGroup, which creates and supports startups working with bitcoin and blockchain. In addition, he invests in many such startups around the world. Silbert created Bitcoin Investment Trust, whose shares are the only securities whose value is directly related to bitcoin.
- Tour Demester, @TuurDemeester
Number of Twitter followers: 161 thousand.
Demester is the editor-in-chief of Adamant Research, which publishes materials on macro-investment in bitcoin and blockchain. He was one of the first to invest in bitcoin and often speaks at conferences dedicated to cryptocurrency in different countries. In addition, he became one of the founders of analytic center Rothboard Institute in Belgium.
- Winnie Lingham, @VinnyLingham
Number of Twitter followers: 149 thousand.
Thanks to its incredibly accurate predictions of the rate of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Winnie Lingham was nicknamed "Bitcoin Oracle". He is the founder of Civic, a blockchain platform for identification. At the world economic forum in Davos, he was included in the club of young world leaders.
- Charlie Shrem, @CharlieShrem
Number of Twitter followers: 142 thousand.
Shrem is a co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation and a preacher of bitcoin with an ambiguous reputation. He participated in the creation of one of the first bitcoin startups BitInstant and invested in bitcoin since 2011. Now Shrem is the Director of community and business development at shrem startup, which creates wallets for cryptocurrencies.
Lopp — the engineer at BitGo and Creator of the site Statoshi.info where real-time displays the statistics of the network of bitcoin. In addition, he has created a Bitcoin SIG group consisting of members of the Mensa society where bitcoin related topics are discussed. Lopp often publishes texts in his blog on Coindesk and other sites dedicated to bitcoin.
- Tim Draper @TimDraper
Number of followers on Twitter: 91,4 thousand.
Draper ranked 7th on Forbes ' Midas List and 98th on Worth Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world of Finance in 2014. He founded the Fund, DFJ Venture Capital, and actively promotes the blockchain technology. In addition, Draper was one of the first to invest in bitcoin.
The garzik's is a co-founder of corporate blockchain startup Bloq. Recently, the company announced the creation of its own cryptocurrency Metronome, which, according to the expectations of its creators, will be used in a variety of blockchains. Previously founded a start garzik's Dunvegan Space Systems, who wanted to create a network of micro-satellites to support bitcoin from space.
Lee is the head and co-founder of BTCC, the first Chinese cryptocurrency exchange. BTCC provides Chinese users with a full range of bitcoin-related services-this is both a multifunctional trading platform and a provider of reliable crypto-wallets. Prior to BTCC Lee was one of the top managers in Walmart China. It is noted that he became interested in bitcoin since 2011.
- Luke Martin, @VentureCoinist
Number of Twitter followers: 172 thousand.
Martin is one of the most active and well-known cryptocurrency traders, the author of the popular on YouTube transfer Coin Chat about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Martin also created the VentureCoinist website with a paid subscription, which publishes educational and analytical materials about cryptocurrencies.
Lubin is a co-founder of Ethereum network and founder of ConsenSys, a blockchain application development company. In addition, Lubin helped to build a charity Foundation and Ethereum venture capital Fund ConsenSys Ventures, which invests in decentralized blockchain applications.
Novogratz is a well — known investor and CEO at Galaxy Investment Partners, which invests in blockchain startups. Previously, Novogratz was a Director and member of the Board of Fortress Investment Group LLC and head of the investment division of the Fortress Macro Fund.
