Biography:List of people in blockchain technology

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This is a list of people in blockchain technology, people who do work in the area of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, in particular researchers, business people and authors.

Some persons notable as programmers are included here because they work in research as well as programming. A few of these people pre-date the invention of this technology; they are now regarded as people in blockchain technology because their work can be seen as leading to the invention of this technology.

A

  • Gavin Andresen, former Bitcoin lead developer
  • Andreas Antonopoulos, author of Mastering Bitcoin
  • Jeremy Allaire, CEO and founder of the digital currency company Circle and Chairman of the Board of Brightcove

B

  • Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger Project
  • Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block.One
  • Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum

C

  • Wences Casares, CEO of Xapo

D

  • Wei Dai, creator of b-money; inspired the creation of Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto

F

  • Hal Finney, the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction

G

L

M

N

S

  • Emin Gün Sirer, professor at Cornell University, dedicated to building and studying distributed and peer-to-peer systems
  • Jorge Stolfi, Brazilian professor at the University of Campinas, cryptocurrency skeptic

T

  • Alex Tapscott, co-author of Blockchain Revolution, CEO and founder of Northwest Passage Ventures, an advisory firm for early-stage blockchain companies
  • Don Tapscott, co-author of Blockchain Revolution, CEO of Tapscott Group, co-founder of Blockchain Research Institute[2]

V

W

  • Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, creator of cryptocoin Zcash
  • The Winklevoss twins, founders of exchange Gemini

Z

  • Changpeng Zhao, founder of exchange Binance

See also


References

  1. ↑ L.S. (2 November 2015). "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?". The Economist explains (The Economist). https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-1. Retrieved 3 November 2015. 
  2. ↑ Cag, Derin (June 28, 2017). "Top 100 Blockchain Insiders". https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/blockchain-top-100. Retrieved June 29, 2017. 




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