Changpeng Zhao (CZ)
computer programmer, crypto investor, co-founder & CEO of Binance the world's largest crypto exchange
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
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
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
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
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
Tara Mac Aulay
co-founder of Alameda Research crypto trading firm (which later became FTX) with Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)
Tyler Winklevoss
Billionaire, twin brothers, co-founder of Gemini cryptocurrency bank, Bitcoin enthusiast, social networks, famous for winning lawsuit against Facebook
Ted Kaczynski aka "The Unabomber"
Mathematics professor aka Ted Kaczynski, The Unabomber, geometric function theory, anit-technology, environmentalist, domestic terrorist, anonymous killer, author of The Net, Unabomber
fbi.gov
Wu Jianshu living
Billionaire, auto parts, Bitmain, Block.one, crypto enthusiast
1963- (61)