Changpeng Zhao (CZ)

Alex Jones living

TV host of Info Wars, TV presenter on The Alex Jones Show, investigative journalist, sensationalist writer, author of The Great Reset and the War for the World, radio broadcaster, KLBJ AM owned by Emmis, conspiracy researcher, political commentator, politics, early days a webmaster at Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor)
1974- (50)
infowars.com

Beeple living

Everydays digital artist aka Mike Winklemann, animator, graphic designer, crypto enthusiast, sold the first NFT (non-fungible token) named Everydays: The First 5,000 Days for $69 million of Ethereum cryptocurrency
1981- (43)
beeple-crap.com

Brock Pierce living

Disney Kids actor in First Kid, Mighty Ducks, film producer, entrepreneur, founder of IGE (Internet Gaming Entertainment) for selling World of Warcraft gold and other virtual goods, futurist, chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, politician, crypto investor, co-founder of EOS Alliance, Block.one, Tether, Blockchain Capital, Mastercoin
1980- (44)
brockpierce.com

Cameron Winklevoss

Billionaire, twin brothers, co-founder of Gemini cryptocurrency bank, Bitcoin enthusiast, social networks, famous for winning lawsuit against Facebook

Dan Kaminsky

Computer scientist, hacker, computer programmer for White Ops, cyber security researcher, Bitcoin enthusiast, crypto enthusiast
sfchronicle.com

David Chaum

cypherpunk, libertarian, cryptoanarchist, privacy activist, cybersecurity, computer scientist, computer programmer, cryptography pioneer in digital currency, inventor of DigiCash and proposed the first ever digital currency in Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments in 1982
chaum.com

Dorian S. Nakamoto living

Mathematician, engineer, physicist, model trains, famous suspect in the creation of Bitcoin, publicly denied being Satoshi Nakamoto via his lawyer who said he did not create, inventor or otherwise work on Bitcoin
1949- (75)

Eric Hughes

Cypherpunk, libertarian, cryptoanarchist, privacy advocate, cryptographer, computer programmer, co-founder of the Cypherpunks group mailing list

Gary Wang living

co-founder of FTX (roughly 10% equity) with Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), former Googler, software engineer at Google Flights, advisor to Sequoia Capital
1992- (32)

Gavin Wood

Cypherpunk, programmer, co-founder of Ethereum, crypto enthusiast, pioneer of the Proof-of-Authority (PoA) consensus mechanism in 2015

Hal Finney

Satoshi Nakamoto was likely a "group effort", but he was believed to be using this alias as the lead developer, co-founder of Bitcoin.org, cypherpunk, libertarian, cryptoanarchist, privacy activist, computer programmer, cryptographer at PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), re-wrote PGP 2.0 encryption, inventor of RPOW, received the first ever Bitcoin transaction allegedly from Satoshi Nakamoto, runner prior to being diagnosed with ALS in August and then made public October of 2009
1956-2014 (58)
bitcoin.org

Henry A. Kissinger

US Secretary of State for Richard Nixon from 1973-1977, politician, lobbyist, founder of Kissinger Associates, diplomat or war criminal, author of World Order, On China, Diplomacy
1923-2023 (100)
henryakissinger.com

Jeff Wernick

Angel investor in Parler, seed funding, seed investors, Bitcoin enthusiast, crypto enthusiast
foxbusiness.com

Leemon Baird

crypto enthusiast, inventor of Hashgraph

Metakovan

co-founder of Metapurse Fellowship, film producer, blockchain technologist, founder of B20 token (B.20), crypto investor aka Metakoven, bought digital artwork NFT (non-fungible token) from Beeple with Twobadour
vigneshsundaresan.com

Michael Clear

Cypherpunk, computer programmer, crypto enthusiast

Michael Saylor

co-founder, chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy, serial entrepreneur, tech executive, early internet pioneer, founder of Alarm.com, patents investor, crypto evangelist, Bitcoin enthusiast, owner of Hope.com
michael.com

Nick Rohatyn

founder of TRG (2002), crypto, partner and CEO of the Rohatyn Group
rohatyngroup.com

Nikolai Mushegian

Ethereum cybersecurity, software engineer, computer programmer, early visionary for DAI stablecoins, co-founder of MakerDAO (Maker Foundation), crypto enthusiast, found dead in the waters of Puerto Rico
1993-2022 (29)
nypost.com

Paul LeRoux

crypto

Phil Zimmermann

Cypherpunk, libertarian, cryptoanarchist, privacy advocate, cryptographer, blockchain tech, cryptographer, inventor of PGP encryption, founder of Pretty Good Privacy an email encryption software, co-founder of Silent Circle

Philip J. Venables

Financier, managing director at Goldman Sachs, member of the Commission on Enhancing Cybersecurity, Bitcoin crypto enthusiast, unproven claims of Satoshi Nakomoto

Pope Francis I living

Jesuit priest, pastor, 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, head of the Catholic Church in Vatican City, the Vatican owns 177 million acres of land
1936- (88)
vaticannews.va

Samuel P. Huntington

American historian, academic scholar, advisor, professor, political scientist, author of political theory "The Clash of Civilizations", director of the Harvard Center of International Affairs, linked to PW Botha in the Apartheid of South Africa, coined the term the "Davos Men"
1927-2008 (81)

Satoshi Nakamoto

Inventor of Bitcoin.org aka Ikinoki (possible alias), cypherpunk, pioneer in blockchain technology, computer programmer, cryptographer, physicist, engineer, pioneer in cryptocurrency, Bitcoin address 1NSwywA5Dvuyw89sfs3oLPvLiDNGf48cPD given to Hal Finney in 2009
bitcoin.org

Wu Jianshu living

Billionaire, auto parts, Bitmain, Block.one, crypto enthusiast
1963- (61)