William E. Quigley
co-founder of Tether (USDT), crypto investor, managing director of Magnetic, co-founder of WAX
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
Bill Elkus
co-founder and senior managing partner at idealab Capital Partners (ICP), early investor in PayPal with Goldman Sachs, angel investor at Park City Angels, founder of Clearstone Venture Partners (1997), crypto investor in Tether, early investor in GoTo.com, eToys.com, MP3.com, NetZero, Tickets.com, CarsDirect
linkedin.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
Changpeng Zhao (CZ) living
computer programmer, crypto investor, co-founder & CEO of Binance the world's largest crypto exchange
1977- (47)
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
Jeff Wernick
Angel investor in Parler, seed funding, seed investors, Bitcoin enthusiast, crypto enthusiast
foxbusiness.com
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 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
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
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)
Twobadour
co-founder of Metapurse Fellowship, crypto investor aka Anand Venkateswaran
Tyler Winklevoss
Billionaire, twin brothers, co-founder of Gemini cryptocurrency bank, Bitcoin enthusiast, social networks, famous for winning lawsuit against Facebook
Vitalek Buterin
founder of Ethereum blockchain, crypto visonary entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, pioneer in soulbound tokens (NFTs)
Wu Jianshu living
Billionaire, auto parts, Bitmain, Block.one, crypto enthusiast
1963- (61)