CoinDesk: Top 10 crypto traders and analysts last year

After the market crash of 1929, as a result of the new legal regulation, an infrastructure appeared that contributed to the formation of a separate culture of traders and analysts of Wall Street. The creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) eventually led to the fact that only a small percentage of people could become accredited investors. Success within a closed monetary club gave rise to a culture of commercial secrets and information asymmetry. Analysts and traders used their position and kept valuable information. This information circulated within a closed group of analysts on the buying side and on the sales side, supplying data to a limited number of investors and traders.

The culture created around cryptocurrencies is very different.

Cryptocurrency analysts and traders use social networks and other platforms to publicly share valuable information and tips on industry trends, popular tokens, price forecasts, and profitable deals.

The most influential forum is Twitter, for example, blogs in Medium offer more detailed analysis and invaluable sources of information from around the world.

Inspired by the thought of a cultural shift from a closed Wall Street to more open opinion leaders in the cryptosphere, CoinDesk has compiled top 5 analysts and top 5 crypto traders.

Ten finalists were selected from more than 30 candidates, and factors taken into account included followers on Twitter, published market analyzes, schedules, experience in the cryptosphere and / or in the financial industry (bonus points were awarded for having both) the number of votes received in the State of Blockchain Q3 survey, and several other indicators.

Top-5 analysts according to CoinDesk

Spencer Bogart @CremeDeLaCrypto

15 000 Followers

Spencer was perhaps the first Wall Street analyst to start learning Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

This led to the fact that he rushed headlong into the pool of cryptoindustry, where he conducts research for Blockchain Capital, an early cryptoinvestment fund. Spencer shares his insights in Medium, in addition, he is widely quoted in the media.

Chris Burniske @cburniske

32 000 Followers

Chris is another analyst who started on Wall Street, and his work brought him one of the largest follower databases in the industry.

His article “Ringing the Bell on a New Asset Class”, Amazon’s best-selling book “Cryptoassets” (Cryptoactives) and Twitter has become the foundation for the emergence of many new crypto millionaires.

Chris is known for his unique insights - for example, forks of blockchains as an activity of investors.

Willy Woo @woonomic

31 000 Followers

Willy is the author of some of the highest quality and custom graphics in the industry. Although he more often acts as an independent expert, his graphics and analytical conclusions were published on CoinDesk, on Twitter, on his personal website (Woobull) and on other platforms.

Some of his charts have garnered thousands of retweets, including a graph of the correlation between BTC's rank on Google Trends and the price of BTC, an infographic of his opinion on the long-term prospects of cryptocurrencies, or a graph of network value versus transactions (NVT).

Tuur Demeester @TuurDemeester

58 000 Followers

Tuur received the highest number of votes in the “Best Analyst” category in the State of Blockchain Q3 poll.

Another pioneer, who began his professional activity in the first days of Bitcoin, Tuur takes into account both the economic forces that determine the development of cryptocurrencies and the technology behind them. He is the author of articles on CoinDesk and graphs that help many navigate and stay afloat with the volatility of Bitcoin prices, which makes him one of the most respected people in the industry with a large number of followers.

Alex Sunnarborg @alexsunnarborg

4 000 Followers

Alex started his career in institutional investing, but when Bitcoin began to skyrocket and gain in popularity, he quit his job and founded Lawnmower, a platform designed to simplify the process of investing in cryptocurrencies. After winning the Money 20/20 hackathon, Alex worked with Coinbaseand then joined CoinDesk. Plus, his work on the State of Blockchain project and the custom charts he shares on Twitter make him one of the most accomplished people in the industry.

Incentive prize

Sheba Jafari

Sheba got on the list because of her brilliant and accurate predictions about the price of Bitcoin. Despite the excellent quality of analysis, it rarely shares its results outside traditional financial media.

Top 5 traders according to CoinDesk

Bob Voulgaris @haralabob

119 000 Followers

Bob is not a crypto insider, and some CoinDesk readers may not be familiar with his name. This is because he is too busy betting on NBA games, being one of the most successful players in the world, being invited as a speaker at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (the sports analytics conference of the Sloan School of Management). But rest assured: Bob has been a cryptocurrency trader since the early days and converted his friend Mark Cuban, who went from thinking “Bitcoin is a bubble” to investing in tokens.

Peter Brandt @PeterLBrandt

72 000 Followers

Peter is a veteran trader with a dizzying career who has found a new hobby for himself in Bitcoin trading.

Other cryptotraders have the opportunity to learn from the best of the best, and the crypto community has gained thanks to the attention, thinking and skills that Peter has brought.

He even finds the time and energy to reason with crypto trolls and brawlers who occupy so much time and space on Twitter.

Tone Vays @ToneVays

42 000 Followers

Tone embodies the principles of the cryptocurrency industry and has Wall Street experience, including a place in the forefront during the crisis, Bear Stearns. Ton is the evangelist of this technology. He works to share unique information about some of the political ideas that exist around Bitcoin, and also gives advice on trading by publishing his charts.

Although there is even a group of users on Twitter, showing how much traders can increase their efficiency if they ignore his advice, Ton can be considered as a conservative trader. In addition, he held a cautious, conservative position during the ICO boom in 2017.

฿ TF% $ D! @CryptoHustle

30 000 Followers

฿ TF% $ D! - one of those traders whose opinion is listened to especially. With almost 30 000 followers, the tweets he tweets describe some of the most implicit investment opportunities in this area. His website (CryptoHustle) is full of in-depth information about various alt-coins and ways to evaluate them, and his comments about the deals made extend to the same markets.

@CryptoCobain

55 000 Followers

An anonymous trader who chose Kurt Cobain’s alter ego who is alive, quit Nirvana and leads the lifestyle of a crypto trader and investor.

In addition to the daily comments and the constantly maintained line that he left the group, CryptoCobain shares with his followers useful information about risk management, portfolio structure and money, which he believes will be “pampit” as follows.

Honorable Mention

Wolf of Poloniex, Whale Panda

The Wolf of Poloniex and Whale Panda have everything in order to enter the top five. The only difference is that in our method of selecting candidates for the list, the number of conflicts was taken into account as a negative factor. Although Ton Weiss, too, continually gets into trouble, Wolf of Poloniex and the Whale Panda managed to get ahead of him in this sense and did not enter the top 5.

Ian Balina also receives an honorable mention, though not because of held assets or trades (although he is doing well), but because of his habit of posting screenshots of his portfolio every day.