Top 30 influential people from the world of the crypto industry

The total capitalization of the Crypto-currency is almost 400 billion dollars. And these 30 people are leading the digital revolution, which is changing the modern financial markets and social institutions.

This list includes scientists, engineers and journalists - all those who promote crypto-currencies, create new tokens and, of course, analyze the market situation. It is expected that 2018 will also be successful for bitcoin and blockade , and these people will not stop on their laurels, continuing to surprise us with new ideas.

#1. Vitalik Buterin, @VitalikButerin

The number of followers on Twitter: 737 thousand

Vitalik is the creator of the Ethereum block-platform, which acts as a global computer for decentralized applications. The rate of its crypto-currency - ether - in 2017 soared to the skies. In addition, Buterin is co-founder (and former editor) of the Bitcoin Magazine cryptographic journal.

#2. Charlie Lee, @SatoshiLite

The number of followers on Twitter: 758 thousand

Lee is the creator of lightcoin and the former technical director of Coinbase. Now he is involved in work on some projects related to bitcoin. Before dealing with crypto-currencies, Lee worked as an engineer in companies such as Google and Guidewire Software.

#3. Brian Armstrong, @brian_armstrong_

The number of subscribers to Twitter: 215 thousand.

Bryan is a co-founder and head of Coinbase, an open financial system and a crypto exchange. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics, as well as a master's degree in computer science from the University of Rice. In addition, Armstrong was shot in the film "Ascension of Bitcoin" in 2014.

#4. Roger Ver, @rogerkver

Twitter subscribers: 519 thousand

Roger is considered the first person in the world to invest in bitcoin start-ups (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 Internet 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 well-known books "Mastering Bitcoin" and "Internet Money", which tells about the global importance of bitcoin. He acts as speaker at various events related to bitcoin. He is also often invited as an expert on lawsuits, which deals with cybersecurity and crypto-currency technologies.

#6. Nick Szabo, @ NickSzabo4

Twitter subscribers: 201 thousand

Nick Szabo is one of the pioneers in the field of blockade and crypto-currency. He formulated the concept of smart contracts, which today play a fundamental role in the development of crypto-currencies. In addition, he created digital gold (Bit Gold) - a decentralized digital currency, which is the immediate precursor of the Bitcoin architecture.

#7. Don Tapscott, @dtapscott

The number of subscribers to Twitter: 108 thousand.

Don is co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Block 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 "The Revolution of the Blockbuster", which describes how the crypto-currencies and the blockbuster will change our world.

#8. Gavin Andresen, @gavinandresen

Twitter subscribers: 136 thousand

Gavin is one of the first bitcoin developers, with Satoshi Nakamoto himself as the lead developer of Bitcoin Core. In the development of bitcoin since 2010, Andresen founded the Bitcoin Foundation to promote crypto currency, and in recent years he has paid much attention to the work in this organization.

#9. Jihan Wu, @jihanwu

The number of followers on Twitter: 103 thousand

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 equipment for BTC mining: 70% of bitcoins are mined with these ASIC-miners.) Wu studied economics and psychology at Peking University.

#10. Laura Shin, @laurashin

Twitter subscribers: 85,000

Lora Shin is a senior editor of the department of crypto-currency and block-technologies in Forbes magazine and one of the founders of the Forbes Fintech 50 rating. She also leads the Unchained podcast devoted to crypto-currencies and block-book. Shin received her Master of Arts degree from Columbia University School of Journalism.

#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 on crypto-currencies, who published seven books and spoke at 1000 conferences in 56 countries. In addition, Power is a member of the board of directors or consultant of numerous blockbuster and bitcoin start-ups around the world.

#12. Eric Voorhes, @ErikVoorhees

Twitter subscribers: 274K

Voorhees runs the company ShapeShift and maintains a blog on the site MoneyAndState.com, in which he writes about the separation of money from the state and that it will happen thanks to bitcoin. In addition, he co-founded the startup Coinapult, and in 2013 sold his other startup Satoshi Dice for 11.5 million dollars in bitcoins.

#13. Tyler Winklewoss, @tylerwinklevoss

The number of subscribers to Twitter: 142 thousand.

Winklewoss is the director of Winklevoss Capital, as well as co-founder and head of the digital assets exchange of the next generation Gemini. Winklewoss has long been an ardent supporter of bitcoins and is considered the world's first bitcoin billionaire because he invested $ 11 million in this crypto currency in 2013.

#14. Barry Silbert, @barrysilbert

The number of subscribers to Twitter: 153 thousand.

Sylbert is the founder and CEO of DigitalCurrencyGroup, which creates and supports startups that work with bitcoin and blockbodies. In addition, he invests in many such start-ups around the world. Silbert created the Bitcoin Investment Trust, whose shares are the only securities whose value is directly related to bitcoin.

#15. Tour Demester, @TuurDemeester

Twitter subscribers: 161 thousand

Demester is the editor-in-chief of the Adamant Research website, which publishes materials on macroinvestment in bitcoin and blockade. He was one of the first to invest in bitcoin and often speaks at conferences devoted to crypto-currencies in different countries. In addition, he became one of the founders of the analytical center Rothboard Institute in Belgium.

#16. Vinnie Lingham, @VinnyLingham

Twitter subscribers: 149k

Due to its incredibly accurate predictions of the bitcoin and other currencies, Vinny Lingham received the nickname "Bitcoin-oracle". He is the founder of Civic, a blockbuster platform for identity 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 subscribers to Twitter: 142 thousand.

Shrem is a co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation and preacher of bitcoin with an ambiguous reputation.He participated in the creation of one of the first Bitcoin start-ups BitInstant and invested in bitcoin from 2011. Now, Shrem is the director of community and business development in the Shrem start-up, creating purses for crypto-currencies.

#18. Jameson Lopp, @lopp

Twitter subscribers: 156k

Lopp is an engineer at BitGo and the creator of the Statoshi.info site, where real-time statistics of the operation of the bitcoin network are displayed. In addition, he created the Bitcoin SIG group, which consists of members of the Mensa society, where he discusses topics related to bitcoin. Lopp often publishes texts in his blog on Coindesk and other sites devoted to bitcoin.

#19. Tim Draper, @TimDraper

The number of followers on Twitter: 91.4 thousand

Draper took 7th place on the Midas List from Forbes and 98th in the list of 100 most influential people in the world of finance according to Worth Magazine in 2014. He founded the fund DFJ Venture Capital and actively promotes block-technology. In addition, Draper was one of the first to invest in bitcoin.

#20. Jeff Garzick, @jgarzik

The number of followers on Twitter: 80.4 thousand

Garzik is the co-founder of Bloq's corporate blockbuster start-up. Recently, the company announced the creation of its own crypto currency Metronome, which, according to the expectations of its creators, will be used in a variety of lockups. Previously, Garzik founded a startup Dunvegan Space Systems, which wanted to create a network of microsatellites to support bitcoin from space.

#21. Bobby Lee, @bobbyclee

The number of subscribers on Twitter: 73.6 thousand

Lee is the head and co-founder of BTCC, the first Chinese crypto exchange. BTCC provides Chinese users with a full range of services related to bitcoin - this is a multi-functional trading platform, and a provider of reliable cryptotices. Prior to BTCC, Lee was one of the top managers at Walmart China. It is noted that he was carried away by bitcoin since 2011.

#22. Luc Martin, @VentureCoinist

The number of followers on Twitter: 172 thousand.

Martin is one of the most active and famous crypto-currency traders, the author of the popular YouTube transmission of Coin Chat on bitcoin and crypto-currencies. Also, Martin created the VentureCoinist site with a paid subscription, which publishes educational and analytical materials on crypto-currencies.

#23. Joseph Lubin, @ethereumjoseph

Twitter subscribers: 76K

Lubin is the co-founder of the Ethereum network and the founder of ConsenSys, a company that develops blocking applications. In addition, Lubin helped create the Ethereum Foundation and the Venture Capital Fund, ConsenSys Ventures, which invests in decentralized blocking applications.

#24. Michael Novogradts, @novogratz

The number of followers on Twitter: 82.4 thousand

Novogratz is a well-known investor and head of Galaxy Investment Partners, which invests in block-start-ups. Previously, Novogradts was a director and member of the board of Fortress Investment Group LLC and head of investment for Fortress Macro Fund.

#25. Willy Wu, @woonomic

The number of subscribers in Twitter: 59.2 thousand.

Wu is a well-known crypto analyst and investor, as well as a leading blog writer for Woobull. He often writes about the crypto currency as an investment object for sites like Forbes, CoinDesk and BraveNewCoin. In addition, Wu is constantly invited as a speaker at the bitcoin conference around the world.

#26. Brad Garlinghouse, @bgarlinghouse

The number of followers on Twitter: 178 thousand.

Garlinghouse is the head of Ripple, a crypto-currency platform for payment systems. In addition, he is on the board of directors of the Animoto service to create a video. Previously, Garlinghouse was the head of Hightail file sharing and was the top manager at AOL and Yahoo. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

#27. Charles Hoskinson , @IOHK_Charles

The number of followers on Twitter: 83.5 thousand

Hoskinson is co-founder of Ethereum. Today he heads the Hong Kong company Input Output, which is engaged in research in the field of blockade technologies. He also participated in the creation of the Cryptocurrency Research Group in 2013. Hoskinson is an active supporter of bitcoin and writes many articles about crypto-currencies.

#28. Anondran, @anondran

The number of followers on Twitter: 29.7 thousand

Anondran is a crypto-currency analyst and trader, famous for its tweets. He regularly speaks about bitcoin and ether, as well as other altcoyins (ZCash, XRB and others).

#29. Oleg Andreev, @oleganza

The number of followers on Twitter: 18.1 thousand

Oleg - the creator of the protocol of the block-start-up Chain and the historian of cryptoanarchism. He created the Gitbox application, the CoreBitcoin library and the BTCRuby library and the Mycelium cryptosystem for iOS. He also developed a video storage system in the VK network.

#30. Joseph Young, @iamjosephyoung

The number of followers on Twitter: 70.5 thousand

Young is a financial analyst and journalist based in Hong Kong. He is widely known in the crypto community due to his frequent publications in Cointelegraph, Cryptocoinsnews, Hacked, Merkle and other publications. He is also the general director of NewsCrypto resources and B21M, which mainly publishes news about bitcoins and crypto currency.