Tag: influential
Most Influential 40: Danny Ryan
This summer, Ethereum’s much-anticipated London hard fork went live. And with it, Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) 1559, 3554, 3529, 3198 and [...]
Most Influential 40: Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) isn’t the only U.S. politician to look at the cryptocurrency industry with a critical eye, but she may be the most [...]
Most Influential 40: Jeremy Allaire
Jeremy Allaire, a technologist who has long seen the disruptive potential of the internet, founded Circle in 2013 with the aim of bringing bitcoin [...]
Most Influential 40: Michael Saylor
Michael Saylor has probably spent more on bitcoin at this point than anyone else – and he’s still buying. The CEO of MicroStrategy, a publicly-trad [...]
Most Influential 40: Jerome Powell
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is likely the most influential man in crypto. Too bad he hates the stuff. As leader of the U.S. central bank, P [...]
Most Influential 40: Barry Silbert
If U.S. lawmakers ever target the crypto industry for antitrust activity, Digital Currency Group (DCG) might be top of the list. Founded by Barry S [...]
Most Influential 40: Serey Chea
Serey Chea is deputy director general at the National Bank of Cambodia, which is taking a unique approach to a central bank digital currency (CBDC) [...]
Most Influential 40: Ray Youssef
Few people expected the Nigerian crypto economy to explode after the country’s central bank and financial regulators banned crypto trading in the c [...]
Most Influential 40: President Xi Jinping
This year Bitcoin took a serious hit to its hashrate, the measure of electricity going to secure the distributed network, when the Chinese Communis [...]
Most Influential 40: Bitfinex’ed
For the past four years, the pseudonymous Twitter user Bitfinex’ed has been one of the most vocal critics of the cryptocurrency industry. They’ve t [...]
Most Influential: Cynthia Lummis
Lawmakers continue to ask questions about digital assets. Last week, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee that Lum [...]
Most Influential 40: Isaiah Jackson
Isaiah Jackson, co-founder of KRBE Digital Assets Group and the author of “Bitcoin & Black America,” thinks that bitcoin can play a crucial rol [...]
Most Influential 40: Andre Cronje
Andre Cronje is the architect behind decentralized finance giant Yearn. Introduced in 2020, with a “fair launch” said to have helped ignite that ye [...]
Most Influential: Trung Nguyen
Trung Nguyễn was intrigued by CryptoKitties because it combined something he loved – games – with something he hated – blockchain. It was late 2017 [...]
Most Influential 40: Paolo Ardoino
U.S. lawmakers signalled this year that stablecoins may be a threat to financial stability and could prove to be systemically important beyond cryp [...]