From Vitalik Buterin to Tyler Wyklvoss: these people are leading the digital revolution that will turn the world of finance upside down.
The total capitalization of cryptocurrency reaches almost 400 billion dollars. And these 30 people are leading the digital revolution that is changing modern financial markets and social institutions.
This list includes scientists, engineers and journalists - all those who promote cryptocurrency, 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 amaze us with new ideas.
1. Acne Buterin, @VitalikButerin
The number of followers on Twitter: 737 thousand.
Vitalik is the creator of the Ethereum blockchain platform, which acts as a worldwide computer for decentralized applications. The course of its cryptocurrency - ether (ETH / USD) - soared to the skies in 2017 year. In addition, Buterin is the co-founder (and former editor) of the cryptographic journal Bitcoin Magazine.
2. Charlie Lee, @SatoshiLite
The number of followers on Twitter: 758 th. L
and - Litecoin (LTC / USD) creator and former CTO Coinbase.He is currently involved in work on some projects related to bitcoin. Before taking up cryptocurrencies, Lee worked as an engineer for companies such as Google and Guidewire Software.
3. Brian Armstrong, @brian_armstrong_
The number of followers on Twitter: 215 thousand.
Brian is the co-founder and head of Coinbase, an open financial system and a cryptocurrency exchange. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics, as well as a master's degree in computer science from Rice University. In addition, Armstrong starred in 2014, The Bitcoin Rising.
4. Roger Ver, @rogerkver
The number of followers on Twitter: 519 thousand.
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, producing parts for computers, has become one of the first online retailers to accept bitcoins as payment. Today, Roger is often invited to speak at conferences devoted to Bitcoin around the world.
5. Andreas M. Antonopoulos, @aantonop
The number of followers on Twitter: 414 thousand.
Andreas is the author of the famous books “Mastering Bitcoin” and “Internet Money”, which tell about the global significance of Bitcoin. He speaks at various Bitcoin-related events. He is also often invited as an expert on lawsuits dealing with cyber security and cryptocurrency technologies.
6. Nick Sabo, @NickSzabo4
The number of followers on Twitter: 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 the immediate predecessor of the Bitcoin architecture.
7. Don Tapscott, @dtapscott
The number of followers on Twitter: 108 thousand.
Don is a co-founder and executive director of the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), who is trying to formulate clear principles for organizing the Bitcoin community and making decisions within it. In addition, he is the author of the best-selling “Blockchain Revolution”, which describes how cryptocurrencies and blockchains will change our world.
8. Gavin Andresen, @gavinandresen
The number of followers on Twitter: 136 thousand.
Gavin is one of the first Bitcoin developers, and Satoshi Nakamoto himself appointed him as the lead developer of Bitcoin Core. Being engaged in the development of Bitcoin since 2010, Andresen founded the Bitcoin Foundation to promote cryptocurrency and in recent years he has paid a lot of attention to work in this organization.
9. Jihan Wu @jihanwu
The number of followers on Twitter: 103 thousand.
Jihan is a co-founder of BITMAIN, a company that sells devices with ASIC chips for bitcoin mining. (Today, BITMAIN is the world's largest manufacturer of mining equipment for BTC: 70% of bitcoins are mined using these ASIC miners.) Wu studied economics and psychology at Peking University.
10. Laura Shin, @laurashin
The number of followers on Twitter: 85 thousand.
Laura Shin is a senior editor of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies in Forbes magazine and one of the creators of the Forbes Fintech 50 rating. She also hosts the Unchained podcast dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain. Sheen holds a Master of Arts from the School of Journalism at Columbia University
11. Thomas Power, @thomaspower
The number of followers on Twitter: 302 thousand.
Power is the board of the open banking platform 9Spokes. He is an expert in cryptocurrency who published seven books and spoke at 1000 conferences in 56 countries. In addition, Power is a board member or consultant to numerous blockchain and bitcoin startups around the world.
12. Eric Voorhes, @ErikVoorhees
The number of followers on Twitter: 274 thousand.
Voorhes runs ShapeShift and runs a blog on MoneyAndState.com, in which he writes about the separation of money from the state and that this will happen thanks to Bitcoin. In addition, he co-founded a startup Coinapult, and in 2013, he sold his other startup Satoshi Dice for 11,5 million dollars in bitcoins.
13. Tyler Winklevoss, @tylerwinklevoss
The number of followers on Twitter: 142 thousand.
Winklevoss is the director of Winklevoss Capital, as well as the co-founder and head of the next generation of digital assets Gemini. Winkloss has long been an ardent supporter of bitcoin and is considered the world's first bitcoin billionaire due to the fact that 2013 invested 11 million dollars in this cryptocurrency in the year.
14. Barry Silbert, @barrysilbert
The number of followers on Twitter: 153 thousand.
Silberth is the founder and CEO of DigitalCurrencyGroup, which creates and supports startups working with bitcoin and blockchains. 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.
15. Tour Demester, @TuurDemeester
The number of followers on Twitter: 161 thousand.
Demester is the editor-in-chief of Adamant Research, which publishes materials about macroinvestment in Bitcoin and Blockchain. He was one of the first to invest in Bitcoin and often speaks at conferences devoted to cryptocurrency in different countries. In addition, he was one of the founders of the Rothboard Institute think tank in Belgium.
16. Winnie Lingham, @VinnyLingham
The number of followers on Twitter: 149 thousand.
Thanks to his incredibly accurate predictions of the course of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Winnie Lingham received the nickname “Bitcoin-Oracle”. He is the founder of Civic, a blockchain platform for personal identification. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, he was included in the club of young world leaders.
17. Charlie Schrem, @CharlieShrem
The number of followers on Twitter: 142 thousand.
Shrem is a co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation and a bitcoin preacher with a mixed reputation. He participated in the creation of one of the first Bitcoin startups BitInstant and invested in Bitcoin from 2011 of the year. Shrem currently holds the position of director of community and business development at the startup Shrem, which creates wallets for cryptocurrencies.
18. Jameson Lopp, @lopp
The number of followers on Twitter: 156 thousand.
Lopp is an engineer at BitGo and the creator of the site Statoshi.info, where real-time statistics of the Bitcoin network is displayed. In addition, he created the Bitcoin SIG group, made up of members of the Mensa community, where topics related to Bitcoin are discussed. Lopp often publishes texts in his blog on Coindesk and other sites dedicated to Bitcoin.
19. Tim Draper, @TimDraper
The number of followers on Twitter: 91,4 thousand.
Draper ranked 7 in Forbes's Midas List and 98 in the 100 list of the most influential people in the world of finance according to Worth Magazine in 2014. He founded the foundation DFJ Venture Capital and actively promotes blockchain technology. In addition, Draper was one of the first to invest in Bitcoin.
20. Jeff Garzik, @jgarzik
The number of followers on Twitter: 80,4 thousand.
Garzik is a co-founder of Bloq, a corporate blockchain startup. 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. Earlier, Garzik founded a startup Dunvegan Space Systems, which wanted to create a network of microsatellites to support Bitcoin from space.