Cryptoweekly has published a list of the top 100 most influential people in the crypto industry. Here are many acquaintances, but also some surprises. They describe the list as follows:
“This year’s list has never been so diverse, with influencers coming from all over the world. In 2019, technologists, investors, policymakers and visionaries from all walks of life entered the crypto area. This led to an interesting year in the field of approval and regulation of cryptocurrency. The list seems to indicate an interesting 2020 “.
You can find the entire list on the website of cryptoweekly. Below at least the top 5.
Number 1: CZ Binance
Changpeng Zhao is also known as CZ. He is the founder and CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Binance has been very active this year, developing new products and services. This includes the launch path for new IEOs, the decentralized exchange, and due to regulations and other reasons, Binance also had to open country-specific exchanges. Binance also invested heavily in education this year.
CZ is not without controversy, at the beginning of May Binance was hacked for millions of dollars and Zhao seriously thought about rolling back the bitcoin blockchain.
After speaking with various parties, including @JeremyRubin, @_prestwich, @bcmakes, @hasufl, @JihanWu and others, we decided NOT to pursue the re-org approach. Considerations being:
– CZ Binance (@cz_binance) May 8, 2019
Number 2: Jihan Wu
Jihan Wu is the CEO and co-founder of Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of miners. In October Bitmain announced that it is going to build the largest bitcoin mining plant in the world. Before Bitmain, Wu was a financial analyst at a stock firm and an angel investor in Kaomao, a start-up for bitcoin mining hardware. Last month Wu was in the news after a dispute about ownership of Bitmain with his then business partner Zhan.
Number 3: Jack Dorsey
Dorsey is co-founder and CEO of Twitter and Square. He has been known for a long time as a real bitcoin maximist, and that does not hide him. In an interview earlier this year, he said he buys $ 10,000 bitcoin every week. Dorsey launched a crypto division of Square called Cash App early this year. This app should make it simpler for newcomers to own bitcoin, similar to the Dutch Blox. He is now committed to adopting bitcoin in Africa.
Square is doing exactly this for bitcoin with @SqCrypto. For social media, we’d like this team to either find an existing decentralized standard they can help move forward, or failing that, create one from scratch. That’s the only direction we’re at Twitter, Inc. will provide.
– jack ??? (@jack) December 11, 2019
David Marcus is the former president of PayPal and has been on the Board of Directors of Coinbase since 2017. He was also vice president of Messaging on Facebook. But of which he is best known, is Libra. This is Facebook’s crypto currency that has ensured that politicians and bankers have their hands in their hair all year round. Below he is questioned by the American congress.
Number 5: Brian Armstrong
Armstrong is the CEO of Coinbase, one of the world’s largest crypto companies. In recent years, the American Coinbase has also been losing market share abroad. Before Armstrong became involved with Coinbase, he worked at Deloitte and Touche as an Enterprise Risk Management Consultant. Armstrong was still under fire for a while in March, when it became known that he was employed by former members of Hacking Team.
The rest of the top 10 consists of:
6. Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum)
7. Brad Garlinghouse (Ripple)
8. Charlie Lee (Litecoin)
9. Kelly Loeffler (Bakkt)
10. Roger Ver (Bitcoin Cash)
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