Most Popular Cryptocurrency Influencers: Top 130 Followed Bitcoiners and Blockchain Experts in 2019

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The Who’s Who of the Crypto World: A List of the 100+ Most Influential People in Bitcoin and Blockchain

The list of the top 130 cryptocurrency influencers in the bitcoin ecosystem is a compilation of the most prominent personalities within the blockchain era to date. The catalogue of the most popular people in crypto celebrity land was designed to combine all well-respected experts, creators, investors, insiders and connoisseurs designed to help you beef up your buddy profile on major social media networks.

As most of our readers are probably well aware of, since the 2009 bitcoin inception to the 2013 crypto revolution, the blockchain uprising has taken the financial world by storm. There is no looking back.

The decentralized digital economy via distributed ledger technology is creating an amazing new asset class with many virtual currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and other top-ranked cryptoasset coins to become household names by now. And the next big frontier on the forefront of the cryptocurrency era to cross is user awareness and adoption.

People all over the globe are waking up to realize the immense potential of these novel currencies. The nascent blockchain technology has shifted the e-financial landscape in more ways than one, and the emerging ‘programmable money' wave appears to be inevitable. And when you combine these two futuristic forces of forward-looking phases of finance, it's fun to start figuring out who is responsible, credible and newsworthy in the bitcoin-led economy.

Let's look at some of the movers and shakers known as crypto influencers who have amassed quite an audience and following, especially on the infamous ‘crypto twitter'.

Top Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Influencers in 2019

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Bitcoin began a new outlook of optimizing for monetary sovereignty for people and after a decade of existence having been created for over 10 years now, these influencers are some of the most popular people of interest who have gained the most trustworthiness and authenticity.

Between their early-adoption, product creations, company accomplishments, investment insights, trading tips, user education media and overall thought-leadership inputs; the following list of blockchain-centric high-impact quality-matters timely-delivery influencers is a growing aggregate of the alphas, the who's who of crypto. From the Bitcoin Jesus to the Crypto Crusader, this mix of bulls, bears and hating doubters, the following list of blockchain enthuasists and advocates was carefully curated using a number of social signals and indicators.

Without further ado, let's hashtag out the hottest crypto influencers to find and follow.

Changpeng Zhao

Zhao is probably better known all over the world as CZ. He is the mastermind behind Binance, one of the world’s largest and most trusted crypto exchanges. CZ has previously served as the CTO of OKCoin and has also worked as a backend developer for Blockchain.info Additionally, it bears mentioning that CZ has been involved with the crypto sector at large for many years now and has even been featured on Forbes’ list of the richest people related to the crypto industry.

Vitalik Buterin

Over the last 4-5 years, Vitalik has become an integral member of the global crypto landscape. In this regard, it bears mentioning that he is the co-creator of Ethereum and whitepaper author of ETH — a blockchain platform that provides independent developers with a foundation to build their dApps atop. Additionally, earlier this year, Buterin announced that he will now be focusing more on making ICOs safer for the general public.

Brian Armstrong

Much like CZ, Armstrong is one of the biggest names in the world of crypto today. He not only is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, but he is also a sought after crypto expert who is often invited to speak at conferences all over the globe. Armstrong has often mentioned in his interviews that his dream is to turn Coinbase into an all-in-one crypto platform where customers (both casual and institutional) can avail of a wide range of products and services with the touch of a button.

Michael Novogratz

Before launching his crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital, Novogratz worked as a hedge fund manager for Fortress Investment Group. He claims that more than 20% of his current investment portfolio comprises of crypto. Not only that, but Michael is also viewed by the global investor community as being a perennial crypto bull (whose predictions, we might add, have been wrong a few times.)

Winklevoss Twins

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are the principal owners of Winklevoss Capital as well as the founders of premier digital asset exchange ‘Gemini’. Additionally, it is also worth bearing in mind that Tyler is the world’s first Bitcoin billionaire.

Brad Garlinghouse

Founder of Ripple — one of the world’s largest crypto payments processors — Brad Garlinghouse is an extremely popular name across the global crypto landscape. Brad has previously served as the CEO of Hightail, a file-sharing service, and is also an active angel investor — with his investment ventures having funded a little over 40 startups to date.

Roger Ver

Another common name that most crypto investors would have heard of for sure, Roger has been a Bitcoin advocate for quite some time now and was one of the first big-name investors to start putting his money on various crypto-related ventures. He currently serves as the CEO Bitcoin.com and is also widely considered to be one of the foremost proponents of Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of the original Bitcoin protocol.

Barry Silbert

Silbert is the Founder of Digital Currency Group — a crypto firm that serves as an incubator/investment fund for various clients operating within this space. If that wasn’t enough, he is also the CEO of Grayscale Investments, an investment venture that has gained a lot of mainstream financial traction over the past couple of years.

Jihan Wu

One of the principal founders of Bitmain, Jihan Wu is considered by many to be the godfather of crypto mining. His net worth is estimated to be worth more than $2 Billion and is a staple at many crypto conferences held all across the globe. Lastly, it also bears mentioning that Jihan holds a degree in economics from Peking University.

Adam Back

World-renowned cryptographer Adam Back is probably best known for his work with hashcash — a PoW system that was designed to help email service operators filter out spam in an easy, hassle-free manner. Back is now the CEO of Blockstream — a crypto-related startup that is focused on developing side chains as well as other similar novel applications.

Kathleen Breitman

While a lot of people may not be aware of who Kathleen is, she has been active within the global crypto landscape for quite some time now. For starters, she is the co-founder of Tezos, a decentralized governance platform, as well as a key member of the Tezos Foundation (an organization that seeks to promote blockchain awareness and crypto education across the world).

Pieter Wuille

Pieter Wuille has silently gathered a cult following for himself because of his development work within the BTC ecosystem. His current point of focus is Bitcoin Core — one of the many hard forks of the world’s flagship crypto-asset. Not only that, Wuille was highly instrumental in getting SegWit added to the BTC protocol back in the day. He is also the co-founder of the crypto startup ‘Blockstream'.

Joseph Lubin

Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin is probably better known for his work with ConSensys — a firm that focuses on the creation of various novel blockchain projects. Additionally, Lubin has also been an active angel investor within this space for a couple of years now.

Nick Szabo

Famous computer scientist/digital security expert Nick Szabo has been instrumental in ushering in a crypto-enabled tech revolution across the globe — primarily because of his extensive work with smart contracts. Additionally, a little known fact about Szabo is that he was one of the first investors of Bit Gold – a predecessor to Bitcoin that was released before the turn of the millennium.

Brendan Bulmer

Brendan Bulmer is currently helming operations for Block.one — a company that is responsible for the creation of EOS’ primary decentralized ledger system. Additionally, the HK-based entrepreneur was able to raise more than $4 Billion for EOS’ ICO as well as the firm's core dev community.

Charlie Lee

Charlie Lee is a former Coinbase employee who is perhaps best known for being the brains behind the popular crypto project ‘Litecoin’ — which is currently one of the world’s top 10 crypto assets by the total market capitalization. Over the past year or so, Lee has focused all of his efforts on driving LTC adoption across the globe.

Peter Smith

Smith is one of the co-founders of Blockchain — one of the world's most widely used crypto wallets. A few months back, he launched another venture called Blockchain Principal Strategies — an institutional platform that is designed to help investors gain more OTC-related crypto exposure.

Jeffery Liu Xun

LIU Xun (Jeffery) is a crypto entrepreneur who currently runs a venture called XanPool — a fiat gateway that operates in Hong Kong (Chinese launch date to be announced soon). XanPool allows for cash to crypto transactions to take place in a completely seamless, instant manner. Additionally, Liu Xun is also the co-founder of two other notable startups:

Antler: A global startup generator and early-stage VC that is building the next big wave of tech.

Xarbon: A sustainability tech-related NGO that has helped reduce over 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide via its various projects.

Alexey Ermakov

Ermaov is the CEO and founder of Aximetria — a Swiss-level, VQF-regulated crypto-focused mobile finance service that is designed for casual as well as institutional investors. Additionally, he is also the founder of Pay Reverse, a white-label cash-back service that allows users to quickly create an additional monetization stream for themselves.

Sky Guo

Guo is the CEO of Cypherium, an enterprise-focused blockchain platform that prioritizes both scalability and decentralization. Guo obtained his bachelor's degree in computer science from Pepperdine University and is also skilled in several niche technical domains related to programming and blockchain technology.

Aries Wang

Aries is the co-founder of Bibox, a digital asset exchange that makes use of some of the latest technology-related to big data analytics and AI-enhanced algorithms to optimize trades and transactions. It is also worth mentioning that within a year of co-founding Bibox, Wang was able to lead his exchange to a top ten position on CoinMarketCap. Not only that, as things stand, Bibox has a daily tx volume of more than $200 Million.

Manish Kataria

Kataria is the co-founder of the multi-exchange trading terminal Quadency. His background spans finance, tech, digital business, and innovation strategy in the enterprise consulting space. Not only that, but Manish has also spent a lot of time working for F500 clients as well as looking at macroeconomic trends to formulate business plans for his own company.

Gabriele Musella

Gabriele is the Founder and CEO of Coinrule — a smart assistant designed exclusively for cryptocurrency traders. With over 15 years of experience in domains such as FINTECH, Telco, Science, Banking, he has has been able to seamlessly navigate through a range of innovation management roles around 5 countries (Finland, UK, USA, Hungary, Italy) working for UBS Bank, Nokia, NHS, Vodafone, IBM, WPP, Lloyds Bank, etc. Gabriele holds a BSc/MSc from the Polytechnic of Milan and has undertaken several executive business programs at the L.S.E and Harvard University. Lastly, he is a mentor at Google Launchpad, StartupBootCamp, and Virgin Startups.

Steve Bishop

Steve Bishop – the founder of Justbookitnow.com, Flame Concepts, and co-founder of ROCCR.COM – is at the forefront of blockchain development in the ticketing industry, with a tag line of “Ticketing with Integrity.” Steve has been providing specialist ticketing solutions to clients such as The Prince’s Trust and Mclaren for over 7 years now.

Zoltan Tersanszky

Zoltan is a networking professional who currently works for Blockben — a fin-tech firm that is committed to creating novel blockchain platforms that can help revitalize the global digital landscape. As an IT and electronics technician, Zoltan quickly realized the potential of blockchain technology and has thus been involved in this space for quite some time now.

Dr. Michael Yuan

Yuan is the founder of a new decentralized marketplace called OpenBay, as well as the CEO of Second State, a global provider of smart contract-based business solutions. He is also the lead author of 5 books on software engineering that have been published by leading media houses such as Addison-Wesley, Prentice-Hall, and O'Reilly Associates.

Lastly, it should be pointed out that Yuan is associated with several other successful ventures as well. They include:

Cybermiles: A public blockchain system that has been devised specifically for e-commerce related transactions.

Ringful LLC: Ringful is a medical information system that has been designed to help consumers save on their healthcare costs as well as receive better treatment using novel preventive options (that can be operated via one's smartphone devices.)

Kyle Asman

Asman is a founding partner at BX3 Capital, a business advisory firm that helps companies get situated in emerging sectors such as blockchain and cryptocurrency. In the past, he has held investment banking and regulatory consulting roles at several prestigious financial firms including Goldman Sachs, Duff and Phelps, and Ryan LLC (a global tax firm). If that wasn’t enough, Asman was also a VC investor in Snapchat as well as several other successful startups.

Daniel P. Simon

Daniel is a writer, entrepreneur, and financial communications expert who has been a part of the global fin-tech revolution from the very beginning. In the past, he has advised some of the biggest brands in this space including Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs. Over the last couple of years, Simon’s focus has mainly been on digital finance as a result of which he has become the CEO and co-founder of Vested — an integrated communications firm.

If all that wasn’t enough, Simon has also served as a regular columnist for Forbes, Market Media and CoinTelegraph, and he has even appeared on programs such as Cheddar, FinTech TV, Asset TV and BrightTALK’s Focus on Fintech series.

Salvador Casquero Algarra

Algarra is the founder or 2gether, the world’s first collaborative financial platform that seamlessly joins the financial structures (built using FIAT currencies) of yesteryears with cryptocurrencies.

Edith Muthoni

Edith is a professional investment writer, stock trader, and personal finance coach. She is currently working as the chief editor for LearnBonds.com, a personal investment site/community with more than 100,000 monthly readers.

Christophe de Courson

Chris is the CEO of Olymp Capital, Europe’s first asset management fund dedicated to blockchain and crypto. He is also the Managing Director of Agentic Group — a global membership-based consortium of Blockchain and Digital Currency companies that are based out of N.America, Asia and Europe.

Dmitriy Berenzon

Berenzon is a Research Partner at Zenith Ventures, a multi-strategy venture fund for blockchain and cryptocurrency. In the past, he has been associated with many other blockchain/crypto-related projects including:

• Coinfund
• Polyledger
• Blockchain at Berkeley

Vaibhav Kadikar

Vaibhav Khadikar is an entrepreneur (of Indian origin) who is probably best known for being the Founder & CEO of CloseCross, a decentralized prediction market platform. However, he has also been involved with some other successful ventures in the past such as:

• Blockchain Propulsion (Co-Founder and Mentor)
• Syngenta (Head of Strategic Partnerships)

Sukhi Jutla

Jutla is a speaker, thought leader and qualified IBM Blockchain Developer who has won several prestigious awards including:

• The Asian Woman of Achievement
• Female Entrepreneur of The Year
• She was previously named to the Top 100 European Digital Pioneer list by The Financial Times and Google and has also authored three books (one of whom is a #1 bestseller). They include:
• Escape The Cubicle: Quit The Job You hate Create A Life You Love
• Authors and The Blockchain
• The FinTech Book

Daniel Ameduri

Daniel Ameduri is the co-founder of Future Money Trends and the author of Don’t Save for Retirement: A Millennial’s Guide to Financial Freedom. His FMT newsletter has around 150,000 subscribers and is considered to be quite an authoritative journal when it comes to crypto investments. In the past, he has been invited to be a guest contributor for several reputed media outlets including: The Wall Street Journal, ABC World News Tonight and Russia Today TV. Last but not least, his YouTube channel (which came into existence back in 2007) currently has an aggregate of more than thirteen million views.

Marc Bhargava

Marc is the President of Tagomi — a leading digital asset prime brokerage, which is integrated with 9 different crypto exchanges and several different OTC desks in the US and abroad. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and has previously worked for firms like Brainchild Holdings and AirBnB.

Sean Keefe

Sean Keefe is the Managing Partner of Straight Up Capital, a leading crypto investment fund investing in decentralized tech, blockchain protocols, & digital and crypto-assets. He leads the company by being an expert in all things crypto and has a passion for informing others about the industry. Additionally, Sean’s background includes being a tech startup attorney and his interest and focus lie primarily in venture capitalism. He has been featured as a guest speaker/contributor by many established media outlets including Yahoo Finance, KYW Newsradio, and NBC 10.

Ben Samocha

Ben is the founder and CEO of CryptoJungle — one of Israel’s leading media platforms related to all things crypto/blockchain. Additionally, Samocha is also the co-founder of Blockchain B7, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve awareness regarding Bitcoin as well as cryptocurrencies across Israel.

Craig Russo

Russo is the founder of Peer — a Boston based startup that is behind several prominent digital publications including Sludgefeed. Additionally, he is also a well-respected analyst/investor whose insights can regularly be found across a host of media outlets including Cointelegraph, Bitcoinexchangeguide, etc.

Juan Benet

Benet is best known for being the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs — the firm responsible for driving innovations such as IPFS (a hypermedia protocol) and Filecoin (a crypto-driven file storage network). In addition to this, Juan has also been associated with many startups operating within diverse fields such as mobile gaming and knowledge sharing.

Pavel Durov

The man behind Telegram’s record-setting ICO last year, Pavel Durov is known within the global crypto community as being a serial entrepreneur — who in the past has been associated with several successful startups including VKontakte.

Yuzo Kano

For the longest time, Kano worked as an executive for Goldman Sachs before he finally decided to go solo and establish his very own crypto exchange ‘bitFlyer’. Over the past couple of years, his venture has grown to become the world’s fourth-largest digital currency trading avenue (in terms of annual turnover.)

Laura Shin

Shin is a senior editor for Forbes who has delved extensively into tech domains such as blockchain and crypto. Additionally, she also hosts one of the most popular crypto-related podcasts in the world called ‘Unchained’.

Kathryn Haun

In addition to her work as a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Kathryn is also a director at Coinbase — where she helps the crypto firm conduct their audits in a fully compliant manner. Also, before she became a part of the crypto sector, Haun worked as a federal prosecutor for the US Department of Justice.

Craig Wright

Dr. Wright is an Australian scientist who is one of the driving forces behind Bitcoin SV, a hard fork of BTC that came into existence a couple of years back. He is notorious for being loud, brash and has even filed lawsuits against people who have questioned the veracity of his central claim – i.e. he is, in fact, Satoshi Nakamoto (the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin).

Brandon Chez

While Chez himself might not be that well known, the venture he currently heads — Coinmarketcap — is probably one of the world’s most used website for tracking crypto prices (as well as other data related to more than a thousand cryptocurrencies). As things stand, CMC is the world’s top source for all crypto-related information— so much so that the website is known to influence the market quite substantially during certain periods of bullish/bearish momentum.

Elizabeth Stark

Elizabeth Stark has been associated with the crypto sector for quite some time now. However, it is her role as the founder and CEO of Lightning Labs that first thrust her into the global spotlight some years back. Additionally, at the start of 2019, Stark became a fellow at the Coin Center — a research organization that deals with the creation of unbiased government policies (especially in regards to decentralized technologies.)

Charles Hoskinson

Charles likes to describe himself as a serial entrepreneur, tech innovator and the founder of three well-respected crypto startups — namely IOHK, Invictus Innovations, and Ethereum. If that wasn’t enough, Hoskinson is also one of the key players behind Cardano (ADA), a third-generation cryptocurrency that came into existence quite recently.

Olaf Carlson-Wee

Carlson-Wee is a self-made billionaire who founded Polychain Capital a few years back. For those of our readers who may not be aware of what Polychain is, it is like a crypto hedge fund that manages the assets of thousands of clients. In the past, Olaf has also served as a Product Manager for Coinbase.

Mike Kayamori

Kayamori is the man who currently serves as the CEO of Liquid — the world’s first crypto trading platform to be fully regulated by the Japanese FSA. Over the past decade, Mike has held several c-level portfolios at companies like Softbank, Gungho Asia, and Bharti Group.

John McAfee

One of the most recognizable names in the field of digital privacy and security, John McAfee is a trailblazer as far as computer tech is concerned. However, over the past decade or so he has been focusing all of his efforts primarily on the crypto sector — with him currently serving as the CEO of enterprise crypto startup ‘Luxcore'.

Jed McCaleb

Jed McCaleb is a well known digital currency advocate who helped co-found ‘Stellar'. Additionally, in the years leading up to his work with XLM, Jed served as the CTO of Ripple. However, he is probably best known for being the creator of Mt Gox — an exchange that famously fell victim to a massive hacking scandal back in 2014. Lastly, it also bears mentioning that Jed is the creator of eDonkey, a pioneering P2P file-sharing network.

Dan Morehead

Morehead is the CEO of one of the world’s most lucrative crypto hedge funds ‘Pantera Capita’. He is also currently working as the chairman for Bitstamp — one of the biggest crypto trading platforms (by total tx volume) in existence today.

Nejc Kodrič

Nejc is the man responsible for creating one of the world’s most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges — Bitstamp. He has been involved in this space for nearly a decade now and was one of the first adopters of crypto-tech to invest quite heavily in Bitcoin.

Dominik Schiener

Schiener is an Italian entrepreneur who is best known for being the co-founder of IOTA — a next-generation blockchain ecosystem that is designed to function on a completely trustless basis. Additionally, he is also the chairman of the IOTA Foundation.

Bryan Bishop

Tech developer Bryan Bishop is renowned for his work with Bitcoin Core. In the past, he has worked on many key updates related to BTC that have helped make the flagship currency more efficient, secure and transparent.

Jesse Powell

Co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, Jesse Powell has been active within this space since the very beginning. In the past, he has helmed operations for an online gaming startup as well as several other successful biz ventures.

Arianna Simpson

Founder and MD of crypto hedge fund ‘Autonomous Partners' (AP), Arianna Simpson has been able to raise more than $10 Million from several investors such as Coinbase and Union Square Ventures till date. In addition to her work at AP, Simpson also advises some other digital currency/blockchain-related startups.

Bart Stephens

Bart is best known for being the founder of VC investment fund Blockchain Capital. However, what many people may not know about him is that he is also the head of his very own family fund, Stephens Investment Management (a venture that deals with diversified investment strategies that go beyond the realm of crypto).

Marc Andreessen

Marc is an investor, entrepreneur of mythical proportions. For starters, he has been on the edge of the crypto world since its very inception and over the years has set up several successful ventures, including 16z Crypto — a $300M VC fund that deals primarily with the creation of novel crypto blockchain projects.

Dan Larimer

Dan can be best described as a serial crypto entrepreneur because of his involvement with so many altcoin projects. For example, he is currently the CTO of Block.one, a venture that oversees the development of the EOS protocol. In addition to this, he is also the man behind DPOS — a novel PoS consensus algorithm.

Tricia Martinez

As the CEO of Wala — a financial services app that seeks to increase the global use of crypto, especially within emerging markets — Tricia has been able to make quite a name for herself. In addition to her work at Wala, Martinez is also at the helm of operations for the Wala Foundation.

Arthur Hayes

Arther Hayes is a well-known crypto personality who is also the co-founder and CEO of one of the world’s largest and most trusted digital currency exchanges ‘BitMex’. Before his work there, Hayes was associated with the banking industry (mainly with Citigroup).

Bobby Lee

Bobby is a board member for the BTC Foundation and is one of China’s most visible crypto personalities. In this regard, it also bears mentioning that he is the co-founder of BTCC (formerly BTC China) — one of the largest crypto trading platforms in Asia.

Valery Vavilov

Vavilov is the head of Bifury, one of Europe’s largest mining operators. Additionally, she is also closely associated with Bitfury Group’s software and hardware development efforts.

Adam Ludwin

Adam Ludwig is best known for being the CEO of blockchain startup ‘Interstellar’ — a company whose main objective is the acceleration of dApp development within the Stellar ecosystem.

Charlie Shrem

Shrem is the head of CryptoIQ (a crypto advisory venture) as well as one of the co-founders of the Bitcoin Foundation. If that wasn’t enough, he also currently heads development efforts for Jaxx — a digital asset wallet company.

Star Xu

Xu is the head of OKEx, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platforms. However, over the last couple of months, he has made several striking announcements — with one of them being his plan to release a stable coin that will have its value pegged to the Chinese Yuan.

Michael Arrington

The TechCruch founder has become an integral part of the global crypto ecosystem over the last 5-6 years. In addition to running the aforementioned media outlet, Michael also heads his very own investment fund called ‘Arrington XRP Capital’ that invests in a variety of different blockchain startups. Lastly, it bears mentioning that in an interview last year, Arrington revealed that over 50% of his total wealth was committed across a host of different cryptocurrencies.

Naval Ravikant

While Naval’s presence is not confined solely to the world of crypto, the well-respected tech thinker has been involved with many crypto startups (either as an advisor or an investor). For example, after creating AngelList nearly a decade back, Ravikant established CoinList — a venture that seeks to provide ICO and advisory services to entrepreneurs and investors.

Justin Sun

Another popular name within the world of crypto, Justin Sun is best known for being the founder and CEO of TRON (one of the world’s largest digital assets in terms of overall market capitalization). Before founding TRON, Sun spent quite a few years working for Ripple as the company’s chief Chinese representative.

Blythe Masters

Blythe is the current CEO of a fintech startup called Digital Asset Holdings. The firm primarily deals with the development of a distributed ledger technology that can be used by members of the global finance industry. In the past, Masters has worked for many established banking institutions including JP Morgan Chase.

Erik Voorhees

Vorhees is the man behind Shapeshift — a Zug-based decentralized exchange that allows users to facilitate near-instant crypto exchanges. Additionally, he is also the primary driving force for several other prominent startups such as Coinapult and SatoshiDice.

Don Tapscott

Don is a prominent member of the global crypto ecosystem owing to his insane body of work that includes authoring several books (including the best seller ‘The Blockchain Revolution’) as well as serving as a public speaker at various conferences around the world. Additionally, he is also the founder of the Blockchain Research Institute which aims to help upcoming startups navigate the burgeoning blockchain market in the easiest manner possible.

Apolo Anton Ohno

Olympic gold medalist Anton Ohno recently made his foray into the world of crypto by creating a digital trading platform called ‘HybridBlock’. If things go as per plan, Ohno and his team are looking to raise a total of $50 million via his platform’s upcoming ICO.

Vinny Lingham

Vinny’s reputation across the global crypto market has continued to grow over the last couple of years. Hi is an investor/entrepreneur who founded Civic — a blockchain based identity management system. Not only that, but he is also the man responsible for creating SiliconCape, a non-profit organization that seeks to attract startups and tech investment to South Africa.

Anthony ‘Pomp’ Pompliano

Pomp is one of the most prominent crypto advocates in the world. He is not only the founder of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, a crypto/blockchain-related investment firm, but he is also the host of one of the most popular podcasts (related to digital currencies) in the world called ‘Off the Chain’. Additionally, a few years back, Anthony established his solo venture investment firm called Full Tilt Capital.

Jimmy Song

Song is a BTC proponent, developer, and investor who is based out of Austin, TX. He currently runs one of the most popular blockchain education courses in the world as well as works as a public speaker who is frequently asked to address various crypto gatherings across the globe.

Ari Paul

Ari Paul is the CIO of BlockTower Capital — an investment firm that leverages professional crypto trading and portfolio management services. Before entering the digital currency sector full time, he worked as the portfolio manager for the University of Chicago’s hedge fund.

Riccardo Spagni

Riccardo Spagni is a part of Monero’s core dev team and is responsible for the smooth governance of the crypto platform. He is a qualified computer scientist and has been an active member of the global crypto community for many years now. In the past, he has given several keynote addresses at various crypto conferences around the world.

Jon Matonis

Matonis is one of the core founders of the Bitcoin Foundation — an organization that has been working to increase awareness regarding BTC since its inception. In the past, he has worked as a director for Globitex, an institutional-grade crypto exchange based out of Lithuania.

Vlad Zamfir

Vlad Zamfir is a well-respected blockchain researcher/developer who is currently associated with the Ethereum Foundation. As things stand, he is working on some of the scalability issues that are affecting the ETH ecosystem. In this regard, Vlad recently presented a proof-of-concept for his new sharding tech at a hackathon earlier this year.

Da Hongfei

Hongfei is a well-respected member of the Asian crypto community owing to his work with NEO, one of the largest cryptocurrencies in the world by total market capitalization. Additionally, Da is also the CEO of OnChain, a blockchain-related firm that provides its clients with a wide array of consultancy services.

Mick Hagen

Mick is the mastermind behind Mainframe, a blockchain-based communication network that seeks to minimize the effects of censorship that has been imposed by various government organizations across the globe. Not only that, but he is also a well-known angel investor, who in the past, has invested in many successful ventures like MyCrypto.

Jeremy Allaire

The Circle CEO is considered by many to be a crypto trailblazer, especially within the P2P payments market. However, before becoming a mainstay within the world of blockchain, Allaire was known as a serial entrepreneur who had invested/founded several successful ventures including Brightcove — an online video streaming platform.

Tuur Demeester

Demeester is the founder and current CEO of Adamant Capital — a digital currency fund that is related to Bitcoin and other prominent cryptos such as ETH, XRP. He is also a renowned economist whose work is regularly published across a host of media outlets across the globe.

Tim Draper

Being one of the world’s most well-known venture capitalists, Draper has not been one to stay too far away from the lucrative world of crypto. For example, in 2014 he purchased a whopping total of 30,000 BTC at a US government auction.

Lastly, Draper is also known to make accurate BTC price predictions that are well researched and backed by solid statistical data.

Connie Gallippi

Connie Gallippi is the brains behind BitGive — which, as the name suggests, is the world’s first recognized Bitcoin nonprofit.

Ryan Selkis

The CEO of Messari, an open source data sourcing avenue for all things crypto, Ryan is an avid crypto enthusiast who in the past has also served as the MD of CoinDesk (one of the largest crypto media outlets in the world).

Linda Xie

Xie is best known for being the MD and co-founder of a crypto hedge fund called ‘Capital’. Her venture has been extremely successful since its inception and has been able to raise a cool $20M in funding from many reputed institutional and private investors. Before her work with Scalar, Linda worked for Coinbase as well as some mainstream banking institutions.

James Radecki

James Radecki is the Head of Business Development for Cumberland, one of the biggest BTC trading desks by overall volume. Additionally, it is also worth pointing out that Radecki has previously served as an MD (for Goldman Sachs) for more than twenty years.

Mark Yusko

Along with Anthony Pompliano, Mark is one of Morgan Creek Capital’s co founders. He is well known for his meticulous price predictions and is a staple on many TV programs dealing with crypto/blockchain.

Jill Carlson

Jill is the founder and chief consultant for Juno — a crypto advisory firm that deals primarily with up and coming blockchain startups. She has previously served as a strategist for Chain as well as worked as a credit trader at Goldman Sachs for many years.

Tone Vays

Vays was previously a senior Vice President at JPMorgan Chase. However, since his departure, he has spent the bulk of his time dealing with cryptocurrencies. Vays is now considered to be one of the foremost pundits within this space — as is made evident by the fact that his YouTube podcast ‘CryptoScam’ has more than 75K subscribers.

Kris Marszalek

Kris is best known for being the founder and CEO of Crypto.com — a venture that seeks to help people transition from fiat to digital currencies in the smoothest manner possible.

Jeff Wilcke

While Wilcke’s name might not be as well known as some of his contemporaries, his resume can compete with the best in the game. For starters, he is the co-founder of Ethereum as well as Amsterdam-based Grid Games. In addition to all this, Jeff is also known to be quite a prolific developer whose insights are valued by the global crypto community at large.

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

Wilcox-O'Hearn is a security expert who has been operating within the global digital landscape for quite some time now. However, he is probably best known for being the CEO of zCash — a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. Additionally, Zooko is also the person being Tahoe-Least-Authority File Store, a decentralized storage tech that is still used by many firms worldwide.

Adam Draper

Draper is the MD of Boost VC — a venture capital firm that operates primarily within the crypto sector. He is also the head of another project called Boost Incubator, a venture that seeks to help small biz ventures scale up their operations and achieve mass-market adoption in the easiest manner possible.

Stephen Pair

Pair is the founder/CEO of one of the world’s largest BTC payment processors ‘BitPay’. From an experience standpoint, we found that he has previously worked for many companies such as IBM. Not only that, he has long been considered to be an expert when it comes to software development and is regularly invited to speak at many crypto conferences all over the world.

Matthew Tan

Matthew Tan is the man responsible for the creation of two famous crypto analytics platforms — namely Etherscan and Blockscan. Before joining the crypto industry, Tan worked for more than 20 years as a member of the global tech community.

Tushar Jain

The Multicoin Capital Managing Partner has been active within the crypto sector for nearly a decade now. For those who may not know, Tushar is actively working to devise novel VC strategies to help flood the market with more liquidity. Lastly, before joining Multicoin Capital, Jain served as the co-creator of digital healthcare startup ‘ePatientFinder’.

Luis Iván Cuende

Cuende is one of the masterminds behind Aragon — an Ethereum driven blockchain collaboration project. Not only that, but he is also an active advisor who has helped mentor several successful blockchain ventures all over the globe.

Mike Belshe

Belshe is known worldwide as being an excellent programming specialist who helped create Bitgo, an institutional-grade crypto investment service. Not only that, but Mike also served as the inventor of HTTP 2.0 as well as founded ‘Lookout'.

Josh Fraser

Josh is one of the primary founders of Origin — one of the world’s first projects designed to help devise decentralized sharing economy marketplaces. Additionally, he is also a veteran trader who is regularly invited to speak at crypto conferences all over the world.

Marco Streng

Marco Streng is the head of Genesis Mining — a venture that currently has more than two million clients. He is also a well-known speaker who is regularly invited to various gatherings to discuss blockchain tech's different use cases as well as its future potential.

Pierre Rochard

Pierre is a world-renowned software engineer as well as the CEO of an NY-based crypto consultancy firm called ‘Bitcoin Advisory’. In addition to this, he is also the co-founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.

Matt Corallo

Matt Carello is best known for being a Bitcoin developer who has worked on several popular projects for Chaincode Labs — a crypto incubator that was established to help spur the development of BTC related tech all over the world.

Lon Wong

The ProximaX CEO is a well-known crypto advocate who currently serves as an advisor for many prominent startups including Huobe, Liven, etc. If that wasn’t enough, Wong is also the President of the NEM.io foundation — an organization that is currently working to fasttrack the development of several NEM projects.

Matthew Spoke

Matthew is the brains behind AION — a blockchain platform that seeks to address many of the scalability issues that are currently plaguing the crypto world.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Andreas is known all over the world as being a successful crypto entrepreneur, author (Mastering Bitcoin) and speaker. He has been a mainstay fixture of the global crypto landscape for many years now and is even the host of one of the most popular podcasts related to this space called ’Let's Talk Bitcoin’.

Micah Winkelspecht

Micah is best known for being the CEO of Gem — a firm that helped create one of the world’s first multisig cryptocurrency wallets.

Eric Larchevêque

As the CEO of Ledger, Eric has helped usher in a new era of security and privacy within the global cryptocurrency ecosystem. Additionally, he is also well known for being the founder/creator of la Maison du Bitcoin, a venture that was created exclusively for French crypto entrepreneurs.

Ran Neuner

South Africa-born Ran is one of the best-known crypto personalities in the world today. This is primarily due to his CNBC show CryptoTrader TV that draws in quite a massive audience every week. Additionally, Neuner is also the man behind Onchain Capital, a well-known crypto investment group.

Meltem Demirors

Demirors is a well respected crypto analyst/investor who also serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for CoinShares. Additionally, it also bears mentioning that she is considered to be an authority on all things blockchain — as is highlighted by the fact that she currently teaches a course on the subject at Oxford as well as MIT's Media Lab.

Dan Wasyluk

Better known to the global crypto community as ‘Blockchain Dan', Wasyluk is the founder and CEO of Blockchain Foundry, a company that helps in the creation of blockchain-based software applications. Additionally, he is also one of the core personnel involved with Syscoin — allegedly one of the world's fastest token creation platforms.

Amber Baldet

Amber Baldet is JPMorgan’s ex-head of blockchain initiatives. Since her departure, she has gone on to form her very own blockchain startup called ‘Clovyr’ that seeks to help crypto enthusiasts navigate the Dapps market in the smoothest, most seamless manner possible.

Richard Heart

Richard Heart is probably best known for his work with BitcoinHEX. However, what people may not know is that is also an entrepreneur, investor who has written several books related to crypto tech.

Emin Gün Sirer

Professor Sirer is a blockchain enthusiast as well as a faculty member at Cornell. He is perhaps best known for being the co-director of IC3, a project that seeks to help advance the use of blockchain within various mainstream domains related to science and technology.

Jameson Lopp

Jameson is currently the CTO of Casa, a distributed key and node startup. He's also the creator of Statoshi.info, a website that provides detailed analytics and statistics on Bitcoin nodes in real-time.

Tiffany Hayden

Tiffany is best known for her work with Ripple. However, she is also an independent consultant who has helped many small-time blockchain-related businesses take off within this uber-competitive market sector. If that wasn’t enough, Hayden is also a community manager for Edge, a blockchain security establishment.

Mai Fujimoto

Mai is a Japenese crypto expert who is better known to her fans as “Miss Bitcoin”. She is also the CEO of Grecone Investment Group, a firm that deals with sourcing industrial investments from all over the world.

Caitlin Long

Caitlin is a former Wall Street honcho who quit her lucrative position to become a full-time crypto investor. She is the founder of smart contracts platform Symbiont (a venture that seeks to eliminate many of the operational issues that exist within this domain currently).

Carl Bennetts

Carl is one of the key personnel behind Status — an Ethereum based mobile client that is open source in nature. Not only that, but he has also been involved with numerous other crypto projects and is regularly called to speak at crypto conferences held across Asia.

Julian Zawistowski

The Golem Factory CEO is renowned for his mentorship efforts as well as his drive to help create the world’s first decentralized supercomputer.

Carolyn Reckhow

Carolyn is currently helming operations for a company called Casa — a dApp startup that is in the process of devising an all-new cryptographic key platform. She has previously worked as an executive for Consensys.

Catherine Coley

Coley is best known for her role as Ripple’s Head of XRP Institutional Liquidity. She has been operating within the global finance arena for more than 10 years now and is known to be an expert regarding a host of matters related to crypto/blockchain technology.

Elizabeth McCauley

McCauley is a freelance marketing consultant who has helped many established clients in the past. As things stand, she is working for Crypto Media Hub and Biterra Capital on their biz dev plans as well as their future operational strategies.

Preethi Kasireddy

Preethi was a longtime Goldman Sachs employee before she moved to the crypto industry and founded her startup called TruStory. For those of our readers who may not be aware, her aforementioned venture has already been able to raise a cool $3M in funding to date.

Sherman Lee

Sherman likes to refer to himself as a serial entrepreneur whose core interest lies in the creation of decentralized technologies. In this regard, it bears mentioning that Lee is the co-founder of Raven Protocol, a decentralized deep-learning training platform. If that wasn’t enough, he is also associated with many other successful projects including Zeroth.ai, a Hong Kong-based VC fund.

Thomas Lee

Tom Lee is a perennial crypto bull who is best known for his outlandish price predictions (many of whom have come true). Additionally, he is also the co-founder of FundStrat, a market strategy/research firm, as well as a well-respected analyst who is frequently called to express his opinions/views on various finance-oriented TV programs.

Biggest Cryptocurrency Influencers: Top Bitcoin and Blockchain People to Follow on Social Media

There is so much more to say and follow up with regarding all of these top cryptocurrency influencers. In the same breath, it's worth mentioning that the crypto market has also witnessed extended periods of bearish momentum, when last year the case was the BTC price dipping from it's all time high of nearly $20,000 to the low $3,000 mark (that within just one year). This is when many of these blockchain leaders surfaced, when the going got tough they got bigger (and louder). But just a friendly-reminder, these popular influencing bitcoiners are not gods. And the chance of anyone having a crystal ball with great odds is slim as far as using any key takeaways regarding investment advice or influencing opinions.

All of these important bitcoin influencers are doing innovative work within the cryptoverse and have emerged as true pioneers, engineers and will be remembered as seers amongst their peers. There is much more to say about each and every one of the people included above. However, take the opportunity to learn from these individuals but also know they are human too and say what they say, tweet what they tweet, right or wrong. Be smart on crypto twitter, get started with the well-known crypto influencers and branch out your network from there. No matter what your coin, project or liking, we will keep adding to the list as new ‘celebrities' and popular people get recognized and heard around the world. One day this list of blockchain influencers will grow from top 130 to top 1,000 as the world continues to adopt bitcoin and cryptos.

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