The 100 most influential

business minds in the industry.

THE CRYPTO

MILLIONAIRES

WHO ARE THEY? HOW DID THEY GET THERE?

AN ANALYSIS BY

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The List
The last couple of years have brought a lot of attention to cryptocurrency, as many venture
capitalists and skilled investors both earned fortunes trading and investing in bitcoin and other
cryptocurrencies. As such, this created more interest in blockchain technology and in the
cryptomarkets, as contemporary society caught winds of people using cryptocurrency to make
their fortunes.



And that led to the release of the top-100 richest cryptocurrency wallets, many of which are
owned by developers who helped legitimize the industry. Much of this information was compiled
thanks to data mined from Forbes, looking at top business and finance publications like:


FORBES
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Fortune magazine
The Financial Times

This helped researchers come up with a list of people who meet the $350-million minimum
required to make the top-100 list. What’s more, researchers found that the average age of crypto-
rich individuals was 42. This is significantly younger than the average age of 67 on Forbes’ list of
the wealthiest Americans, which indicates that cryptocurrency may be more appealing to the
younger, less traditional investor or business professional.



But who are these people ranking topping the list? Unsurprisingly, most are professionals who’ve
built their fortunes working in the tech sector and aren’t strangers to bitcoin and other
cryptocurrencies.

Without further due, let’s dive into the list and find out who the top 100 crypto millionaires are.


1- Brian Armstrong
If you’re just a casual crypto investor or blockchain enthusiast who hasn’t closely followed the
industry, the name Brian Armstrong might not ring any bells. Unlike some
cryptocurrency personalities, Armstrong has kept a relatively low profile in
the news and on social media, compared to more vocal industry leaders.

If you’ve purchased Bitcoin, Litecoin, or Ethereum in the United States,

there’s a good chance that you bought those currencies from him. That’s
because Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the largest digital
currency exchange in the United States, even passing Charles Schwab in number of total accounts.

Part of Armstrong’s success can be attributed to his keen interest in technology, which enabled
him to capitalize on the need for a cryptocurrency purchasing platform that appeals to the average
consumer. Outside of Coinbase, Armstrong has collaborated with some of the world’s top
companies, including Deloitte, IBM, Touche, and even worked as a software engineer for Airbnb
prior to creating Coinbase.

But cryptocurrency wasn’t Armstrong’s first major success. if you’ve ever used an online service to
book a tutor, you may have used his platform, UniversityTutor. He co-founded the company in
2003 while he was in his second year of college, and remained the CEO of the company up until
mid-2012.

These days, Armstrong is committed to growing Coinbase and making cryptocurrency an

accessible investment solution for all. In August 2017, Coinbase obtained what is known as
“Unicorn status” in the finance world. That’s when a privately-owned company is valued over $1
billion. At the time, Coinbase was worth more than $1.6 billion, a huge jump from the $117 million
they initially raised from investments.

Expect to see more of Brian in the future, as Coinbase continues to grow and support even more
cryptocurrencies. Coinbase recently acquired Neutrino, a blockchain analytics startup known for
working with government agencies and financial institutions to track blockchain-based
transactions. While this sparked initial outcry from segments of the community which believe

cryptocurrency should be anonymous, Anderson believes this move will further legitimize the
industry and make cryptocurrency more appealing to mainstream society.

2- Vitalik Buterin
Mr. Vitalik Buterin has been involved in the Bitcoin community since he was just 18 and even co-
founded and wrote articles for Bitcoin magazine, Vitalik is primarily known
as a co-founder of Ethereum. But this young man’s genius has been evident
since very early on.

Born in Russia but moving with his family to Canada at the age of 6, Vitalik’s
advanced intellect was soon recognized and in the third grade he was
promoted to classes for gifted youth. He went on to attend a private high
school in Toronto of which he has been quoted as saying made him “want to learn, and to focus on
learning as my primary goal.”

He first heard about Bitcoin from his dad and shortly thereafter he began writing articles for a
Bitcoin website and just a short time later he became a co-founder and lead writer for Bitcoin
Magazine.

At the mere age of 19 while attending the University of Waterloo, Buterin published his white
paper proposing Ethereum. Just a short time later, right at the same time of Vitalik’s 20th birthday
and after numerous meetings and discussions with his peers that were almost as excited about the
Ethereum prospects as he was, the project was publicly announced.

With a core team joining him that consisted of Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Mihai Alisie,
Anthony Di Iorio and Joe Lubin, they were able to hold an Ether crowdsale to help fund
development just a few short months later. Around this same time, Vitalik received a $100,000
Thiel Fellowship grant and dropped out of school in order to work on Ethereum full-time.

The crowdsale sold Ether, the native token of the Etherum network, in exchange for Bitcoin. This
raised over $20 million worth of the reigning cryptocurrency at a rate of about $18 per minute, the
third most successful crowdfunding campaign to date.

Vitalik and the team utilized those funds to establish the non-profit Ethereum Foundation, which
is based in Switzerland and was responsible for overseeing the open source software development
for Ethereum.

Other projects Vitalik has been involved in:

• Kryptokit
• Pybitcointools
• Multisig.info
• Btckeysplit
• Editorial board of Ledger

In 2012, he obtained a bronze medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics and in 2014 he
received a World Technology Award in the IT Software category.

He has also received acclaimed recognition from:

• Fortune’s 40 under 40 list in 2016

• Fortune’s 40 under 40 list in 2018
• Forbes’ 30 under 30 list in 2018
• An honorary doctorate from the University of Basel in 2018

Vitalik is known to have learned the Chinese language in just a few short months utilizing an app
on his phone, which seems to have helped the Ethereum platform’s relationship with that
country’s leadership. Ethereum is being researched and integrated on institutional levels in China
and Peking University is creating an Ethereum Laboratory to work on protocol improvements as
well as application use cases that can be used for the country’s supply chains and energy markets.

In 2017, Buterin met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and held a speech regarding
Blockchain where more than 5,000 people attended. Moscow has one of the biggest node clusters
on the entire Ethereum network and even though he left Russia at the age of 6, Vitalik is an
extremely prominent and well-regarded person in that country.

Vitalik continues to be active in the industry, publishing papers on his website on occasion and
tweeting/retweeting fairly regularly to his 840k followers. With everything the man has already
accomplished in a mere 25 years on this earth, it will definitely be interesting to see what other
brilliance he has in store for us in the future.

3- Changpeng Zhao (CZ)

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao is a computer engineer, cryptocurrency expert and entrepreneur who is
best known for being the founder and CEO of Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency
exchanges.

Having been featured in Forbes’ Crypto Billionaires issue in February 2018,

CZ held the distinction of having a net worth of over $1.1 billion dollars at
the time. But he wasn’t always a billionaire, far from it.

CZ was born in China to a pair of educators. Shortly after his birth, CZ’s
parents moved to Canada with their little family. Growing up in Vancouver, CZ had an average
childhood that was nothing out of the ordinary in the late 90s.

Once in his late teenage years, CZ started to contribute to his household by taking up jobs at
McDonald’s and a local gas station. After years of hard work, CZ enrolled into the McGill
University in Montreal. It was there that he went on to obtain his degree in computer science.

He then started to move forward in his career, having multiple opportunities in big cities such as
New York, London and Tokyo. During the boom of the technology sector, he saw numerous
promotions in his positions due to his skillset. That was one of the reasons why he became integral
to developing a trade order matching system for the Tokyo Stock Exchange as well as a futures
trading solution for Bloomberg Tradebook.

After these achievements, CZ set up shop in Shanghai. In 2005, he laid down the foundation for
Fusion Systems, a firm that specialized in developing broker-centric trading solutions.

From there, CZ went on to achieve numerous milestones for his company. In what would be a
turning point of his career, CZ was introduced to Bitcoin in 2013.

He joined Blockchain.info’s team as a founding member, and helped develop the firm’s core
solutions. After Blockchain.info, he went on to join cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin as its CTO,
where he spent his time in supporting the exchange’s systems.

While starting his own cryptocurrency venture had been on his mind for a while, it wasn’t until July
2017 that Binance took off from China. The cryptocurrency exchange started off to a great start
with its $15 million token sale. After, the exchange soon had to find a new home in Japan after
China started to clamp down on the digital asset industry in its territory.

That relocation, which happened around September 2017, was not the easiest transition. But the
cryptocurrency boom that soon followed propelled Binance to a different level. In March 2018,
the exchange set up another location in Taiwan. A month later, Binance had allied itself with the
government of Bermuda to house its global compliance base.

Since then, Binance and CZ have added further achievements, where the CEO has led the
exchange into enabling cryptocurrency purchases through credit card and offered more secure
and safe methods for users’ funds. The exchange has also ventured into a token sale platform by
the name of Binance Launchpad.

At the time of writing, CZ remains a highly influential figure in the cryptocurrency space. During
his free time, he often tweets through his Twitter handle, @cz_binance.

4- Tyler Winklevoss
If you’ve been closely following cryptocurrency and key players in the industry, you’ve probably
come across Tyler Winklevoss at some point. Him and his twin brother, Cameron, attracted media
attention for becoming the first Bitcoin billionaires at the end of 2017.

But becoming billionaires isn’t even the interesting part of the story. Before
investing in Bitcoin, Tyler and Cameron gained national headlines for their
lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, who the twins claimed stole their idea for
Facebook. Zuckerberg ended up settling with the Winklevoss twins, paying
them a sum of $65 million for their contribution to Facebook. From that
settlement, Tyler and Cameron invested $11 million into Bitcoin and turned
that investment into nearly a billion dollars on his own, and a combined estimated wealth of $1.3
billion with his brother. It goes to show, you have to have money to make money.

Even without the billion dollars, the high-profile lawsuit, and the crypto earnings, Tyler is still an
incredibly interesting person. Both he and his brother are renowned competitive rowers who
competed for Harvard University and even the United States’ national rowing team. Both
Winklevoss brothers competed in the 2007 Pan American Games, earning both Gold and Silver
medals, as well as the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where they came in 6th place.

And that’s still not all. Always ahead of the trends, Tyler and his brother started their first website
design business in the mid-90s, when they were 13-years-old. While it never turned into a massive
money maker, they were able to earn anywhere between a couple hundred to a thousand dollars
for every site they designed, which isn’t bad for a couple of teens.

Tyler and his brother are also the creators of Gemini, a popular exchange for digital assets. While
he may not be in the media or portrayed in movies like “The Social Network” anymore, Tyler is
working hard to promote cryptocurrency to a mainstream audience.

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5- Barry Silbert
Those who keep up with cryptocurrency news might know who Barry Silbert is, his name is usually
tied to one investment or other. Let’s learn a bit more about Barry Silbert and his involvement in
finance and the cryptocurrency industry.

Barry Silbert Early Life

Silbert was raised in Gaithersburg, Md., and had an inclination for trading from his early childhood.
At thirteen years old he was obtaining and flipping baseball cards as quickly
as he could. He learned early on in life that some items are commodities
and possess monetary value simply due to demand. When he received his
bar mitzvah money he didn’t spend it on consumer staples, he invested it in
the Nasdaq, the S&P, and other stock markets.

Choosing a different path from his peers, as a young high schooler, Silbert
started to work in an entry-level position in a brokerage firm near his home. This early drive to be a
part of the finance sector helped him to advance quickly.

Older employees in the firm from portfolio managers to traders pointed him in the direction of the
General Securities Representative Exam, this early foray into the sector would allow Silbert to
take on the role of a stockbroker. He took heed to their advice and passed the test in high school.

Barry Silbert and Finance

Barry Silbert went to Emory University Goizueta Business School and graduated in 1988. Silbert
went to one of the financial capitals’ of the world, New York, to begin his career. He started his
career as an analyst with Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin, niche investment institution.

In this role, Silbert was able to gain exposure to several divisions such as financial restructuring
and more. He was able to step into the field of restructuring right as the tech boom was about to
wind down.

While the dot com boom was winding down, Silbert’s role was ramping up. Many different tech
companies faced a couple of options, close down or restructure. Houlihan Lokey and Silbert were

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present to help with the restructuring process. Silbert was able to move up from an analyst into
the role of associate and had the opportunity to conduct deep work in significant bankruptcy
cases.

After a few years of restructuring Silbert sought for something more, something different.

Barry Silbert and Restricted Stock Partners

Silbert started his own firm, he called it Restricted Stock Partners. Restricted Stock Partners was a
simple operation that dealt in more complex matters. The vision was to provide investors with
fairly illiquid or low volume assets to move these assets. These assets included public restricted
stocks. He made a few pitches to investors in his circle and was able to start the firm with a total of
$400,000.

The firm would progress over time and would go digital, Silbert would add more investors from
firms such as FirstMark Capital, who would invest large sums in the firm, the firm would later be
called Second Market.

Turning Illiquid to Liquid

Second Market would add more assets that were illiquid, these assets ranged from MBS products
to CDO’s. The exchange was tapping into trillion dollar markets, matching buyers and sellers
together and capturing value.
Business continued to boom as the financial crisis continued with more assets having less liquid
marketplaces. As a firm that hosted illiquid assets, the firm had access to stocks such as Facebook
where early employees would offload a portion of their shares for cash. This opened up another
market, the market for buying and selling early stage private company stock. As such, Second
Market grew and raised more funding from more investors.
The company wouldn’t always be swimming in dough. The financial crisis was resolved, more
liquidity came back into the markets and SecondMarket experienced a decrease in interest. Silbert
had to keep the business running while looking for more opportunities. This search is where he’d
meet one new intriguing and charming up and comer, bitcoin.

Silbert Gravitates Toward Bitcoin

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Silbert heard about bitcoin and started to collect these new assets in 2012. He started investing
slowly at first and then started plunging money into bitcoin as the price was rising. The value for
bitcoin was that it could be comparable to gold and become a form of payment.
In 2013, Silbert would take his firm in a different direction, he would want to open up a market for
bitcoin and a bitcoin fund.

Silbert and DCG

In 2014, Digital Currency Group would start to come to life behind the scenes. DCG would
oversee the launch of the BIT, the acquisition of soon to be subsidiary Genesis Trading. The firm
would see the rise of bitcoin and find itself invested in a variety of startups that included the likes
of Coinbase, BitPay, Ripple, Ethereum Classic, Ripio, and more. DCG will be an investment firm to
watch.

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6- Roger Ver
Roger Ver was an early investor in Bitcoin and a prominent supporter of Bitcoin adoption and as
such, he was often referred to as “Bitcoin Jesus.” Ver has a long history with cryptocurrency,
investing a large amount of money in cryptocurrency-related startups as
the industry was beginning to emerge, and early on he saw Bitcoin as a way
to economic freedom.

However, due to the core software being what he described as “slow,

expensive and unreliable,” Bitcoin Jesus recently switched his
cryptocurrency preference to Bitcoin Cash.

In addition to a colorful moniker, Ver has a rather interesting past as well.

Born in California in 1979, he attended De Anza College in Cupertino, California but dropped out
after just a year in order to pursue his business interests. His LinkedIn profile shows that he was
the CEO of Memory Dealers from 1999 – 2012 before becoming a founding member and board
advisor for Bitcoin Foundation. He also made an unsuccessful attempt at entering politics in 2000
by running as a Libertarian Party candidate for the California State Assembly.

Some critics are quick to point out that in 2002 the now CEO of Bitcoin.com spent 10 months in
prison for selling explosives on eBay without a license. However, his offense is arguably not nearly
as “offensive” as some CEO’s crimes over the years — Ver sold “Pest Control Report 2000,” an
agricultural firecracker that was manufactured by another company and was forced off the market
in early 2003 after it was found that they contained nearly 1,000 milligrams of explosive powder,
far in excess of the legal limit for consumer firecrackers.

In a video posted to his personal YouTube channel last year, Ver described his time in the Federal
Correctional Institution, Lompoc (FCI Lompoc)as quite harrowing, with one guard mentally
torturing him “for his own amusement,” while “another guard sat there and watched the whole
thing.”

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In 2005, Ver moved to Japan and in 2014 as a part of the St. Kitts and Nevis “Citizenship by
Investment” program, which allowed wealthy individuals to purchase citizenship, Ver renounced
his United States citizenship. The very next year he attempted to obtain a visa from the U.S.
Embassy in Barbados in order to reenter the country, but was denied over fears that he would
become an illegal immigrant. However, he later obtained a visa from the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo,
and he was able to speak at a conference in Denver, Colorado in June 2016.

In 2017, Ver surprised many by speaking out in favor of a fork and pushing for an increase to the
Bitcoin blocksize limit, a shift he believed would allow consumers to pay in Bitcoin while reducing
fees. Ver was quoted as saying, “The fact of the matter is, the utility of Bitcoin has been damaged”
and that same year he once again raised a few eyebrows when he suggested in an interview with
CNBC that alleged insider trading of Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase was a “non-crime.”

Roger Ver is definitely an interesting individual and having just celebrated his 40th birthday, we’re
likely to see more from him in the near future.

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7- Brad Garlinghouse
Bradley “Brad” Garlinghouse has been involved with some hugenames over the past 2 decades and
he has gained recognition as an active angel investor in over 40 companies including: Diffbot, Pure
Storage, and Indigo Agriculture. However, as a member of the Board of Directors and current CEO
of Ripple, his name is quite well known in the crypto world as well.

Born in 1971 in Topeka, Kansas and received a BA in economics from the

University of Kansas and went on to achieve an MBA from Harvard
Business School in 1997.

His early career included time in various executive positions with Yahoo,
including Senior VP Communications, and before that he helped pioneer the
VoIP industry as Dialpad Communications’ CEO. Shortly after leaving Yahoo, where he wrote the
famous “Peanut Butter Manifesto,” Garlinghouse joined AOL and served as President of Consumer
Applications for a little over 2 years before moving on to CEO of Hightail.

In April of 2015, Garlinghouse joined Ripple as the President and COO and became the CEO in
January of 2017. Additionally, Brad has served as a board member for Ancestry.com, Tonic Health,
and Animoto and though he has since left those positions, his profile on Ripple states that he
currently serves on the Board of Directors of OutMatch.

In the February 28 issue of Forbes last year, Brad’s crypto net worth was estimated between
$400-$500 million with a nine figure stash of XRP, and it was also reported that he has a 6.3%
stake in the company Ripple itself.

As I’ve been reporting in recent weeks, Ripple and XRP are experiencing an impressive start to the
year and with Q1 just about to wrap and banks like JPMorgan starting to delve into crypto, we’re
likely to hear a lot more out of Garlinghouse as well Ripple.

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8- Michael Novogratz
When people talk about cryptocurrency finally gaining contemporary support, one of the main
people they’re referring to is Michael Novogratz. Former Goldman Sachs partner, hedge fund
manager, and full-on cryptocurrency enthusiast, Novogratz was one of Wall Street’s first and
strongest supporters of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. He supported blockchain technology
back when it was considered a gimmick by people who didn’t understand its capabilities, and he
continues to support blockchain projects and the crypto market in spite of a year-long bear cycle
starting in early 2018.

In short, Michael Novogratz is as “big finance” as they come. This is what makes Novogratz stand
out from his colleagues, as he was one of the only mainstream executives to express sincere
interest in cryptocurrency when prices first started to take off. In fact, he
even accurately predicted Bitcoin would hit the $10,000 mark and continue
climbing—which it did, nearly breaking the $20,000 mark in mid-December,
before transitioning into a bear cycle.

Novogratz’s unwavering support earned him a lot of money, followed by a lot

of losses in 2018. He even started his own cryptocurrency merchant bank known as Galaxy Digital
Holdings Ltd., which he started raising money for in January 2018—yes, that January when things
all went south. Unfortunately for Michael, he ended up losing $136 million in trading losses as the
crypto market came tumbling down.

You would think that losing so much money to market volatility would leave Novogratz feeling
pessimistic about blockchain’s functionality and cryptocurrency’s viability as a long-term
investment opportunity. But in actuality, the opposite has happened. While Michael had lost a lot
of money when the crypto markets collapsed, he also made a lot of money and even more good
calls before then. When asked about how he feels about cryptocurrency these days, Novogratz
admitted he feels optimistic and continues to express interest in Bitcoin and other
cryptocurrencies.

In fact, Michael is still making Bitcoin calls and still believes that the popular cryptocurrency has
the potential of recovering to its former glory days. Hopefully he’s right.

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9- Adam Back
Ever since his name was mentioned in the infamous Bitcoin white paper and the mysterious
Satoshi cited a protocol invented by him as an early influence on Bitcoin’s proof-of-work
algorithm, Adam Back has been an important figure in the crypto-sphere.

Of course he is well-known as the founder and CEO of Blockstream, but

what else do we know about him?

Well, in the 1990’s Back’s career focused on the intersection of

cryptography and computer science. While working at a company called
Zero Knowledge Systems, he worked on encryption and privacy and was even a consultant to
Nokia on the feasibility of mobile phones being able to utilize electronic cash.

In 1997, he developed the idea and wrote the code for Hashcash, the proof-of-work system used
by several anti-spam systems in order to make it difficult for spammers to send millions of emails
by requiring senders to enter a valid header for the message before sending. Hashcash is also
utilized in combating blog spam, defending against user namespace pollution, and in other
protocols.

In the early 2000’s, Back proposed his own B-money solution which used computational effort to
prevent double spending. Unfortunately however, the solution wasn’t able to effectively address
the problem of inflation.

Currently the CEO of Blockstream, where he has been since launching the company in 2014, Dr.
Adam Back holds a PH.D. in computer science from the University of Exeter and is known for a
number of notable achievements and accomplishments over the years.

The British born cryptographer and computer scientist is also known for:

• Implementing Credlib, a library that implements the credential systems of Stefan Brands and
David Chaum.

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• Being the first to formalize the Non-Interactive Forward-Secrecy security property for email and
observing that any Identity Based Encryption scheme can be used to provide Non-Interactive
Forward Secrecy.
• Pioneering the use of non-exportable T-shirts and ultra-compact code with his 3-line RSA in Perl
signature file to protest the United States cryptography export regulations…. which are now
relaxed.
• Consulted with leading security companies, including: Vmware, QWcap, and oneID.

Adam Back has influenced the cryptocurrency industry since the early days and as the leader of
Blockstream, he continues to do so today. And with so much of the Bitcoin core-development team
having joined him, we’re likely to continue hearing the names Back and Blockstream for the
foreseeable future.

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Complete List
1. @cz_binance - CZ is the founder and CEO of Binance, presently the world's fastest-
growing crypto exchange. Previously the CTO of OKCoin and a developer for
Blockchain.info, CZ has been involved in the crypto space for years and this year landed on
Forbes's list of the richest people in crypto.

2. Brian Armstrong - @brian_armstrong - Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, one
of the largest crypto exchanges in the world that also happens to offer a wide range of
products and services for institutional investors. He was featured in the 2014 movie, "The
Rise of Bitcoin", and speaks frequently at conferences on the power of Bitcoin and
cryptocurrency.

3. Vitalik Buterin - @VitalikButerin - Vitalik is known as the godfather of Ethereum, and he's
one of the key programmer's that's driving development of the platform forward. This year,
Vitalik began to focus on making ICOs safer as well - and his recently-released DAICO
concept is beginning to gain traction as a more secure (and safe) way to run an ICO.

4. Tyler Winklevoss - @TylerWinklevoss - Tyler is the Principal of Winklevoss Capital and co-
founder and CEO of Gemini, a next-generation digital asset exchange. Winklevoss was the
world's first bitcoin billionaire, and this year he helped to launch the Gemini dollar, a
stablecoin designed to provide liquidity to crypto traders.

5. Brad Garlinghouse - @bgarlinghouse - Brad is now the CEO of crypto payments startup
Ripple, which launched its xCurrent international payment protocol earlier this year. He
was previously the CEO of file-sharing startup Hightail, and he also an active angel
investor, with more than 40 startup investments made to date.

6. Roger Ver - @rogerkver - Roger was one of the earlier investors in the first crop of Bitcoin
startups. He's now heavily involved with Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of the original Bitcoin
protocol that is intended to be used as cash (while fixing some of the key performance
issues that have plagued Bitcoin Core in the process).

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7. Barry Silbert - @barrysilbert - Barry is the founder and CEO of the Digital Currency Group,
a crypto incubator and investment fund that's already been in operation for several years.
In addition, he's the CEO of Grayscale Investments, a digital currency investment fund that
runs the Bitcoin Investment Trust, a private trust invested exclusively in Bitcoin.

8. Jihan Wu - @jihanwu - Jihan is one of the co-founders of Bitmain, the world's largest
crypto mining company. With a net worth estimated at more than $2B, he's one of the most
influential members of the blockchain industry. Prior to Bitmain, Jihan earned an
economics degree for his undergraduate studies at Peking University.

9. Michael Novogratz - @novogratz - Formerly a hedge fund manager with Fortress

Investment Group, Michael is now the CEO of crypto investment firm Galaxy Investment
Partners. Roughly 20% of Novogratz's network is held in cryptocurrencies, and the famed
investor is a noted "Bitcoin bull" - he previousuly predicted a price target of $20K for the
cryptocurrency next year.

10. Adam Back - @adam3us - Adam is a renowned cryptographer and inventor best known for
inventing hashcash, a proof of work system that is used by numerous email providers to
combat spam. He's now the CEO of Blockstream, a startup that's focused on developing
sidechains and other applications for the crypto ecosystem.

11. Kathleen Breitman - @breitwoman - Kathleen is the cofounder of Tezos, a decentralized

governance platform, and she also plays an active role in its nonprofit entity, the Tezos
Foundation.

12. Cameron Winklevoss - @winklevoss - One half of the dynamic Winklevoss brothers,
Cameron is a Co-Founder and President of the Gemini Exchange, and he's also a Principal
at crypto investment fund Winklevoss Capital.

13. Pieter Wuille - @pwuille - Pieter is a renowned developer who focuses on Bitcoin Core, and
he was instrumental in getting SegWit added to the protocol early on. He's also the co-
founder of crypto startup Blockstream, which incidentally helps provide continued funding
for the development of Bitcoin Core.

14. Joseph Lubin - @ethereumJoseph - After co-founding Ethereum, Lubin then became the
founder of ConsenSys, which works on blockchain infrastructure and software projects. In

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addition to setting up ConsenSys VC and the Ethereum Foundation, Lubin has become an
active angel investor in the crypto space.

15. Nick Szabo - @NickSzabo4 - A renowned cryptographer and computer scientist, Nick
helped develop the entire concept of "smart contracts", and was the inventor of Bit Gold - a
predecessor to Bitcoin that was release in the late 1990s. Szabo continues to actively
perform research in the crypto space.

16. Brendan Blumer - @brendanblumer - Brendan is the CEO of Block.one, the company
behind EOS's distributed ledge software. The Hong Kong-based entrepreneur raised more
than $4B in funding for EOS's ICO, and he's now helping to build the EOS development
community around the world.

17. Charlie Lee - @SatoshiLite - Former Coinbase employee Charlie Lee is perhaps best known
for creating Litecoin, which is now one of the largest cryptocurrencies in the world today in
terms of market cap. Lee now spends the majority of his time working with the Litecoin
Foundation to drive adoption.

18. Peter Smith - @OneMorePeter - Peter is the CEO and co-founder of Blockchain, the
world's most popular crypto wallet. Earlier this year, Peter launched Blockchain Principal
Strategies, an institutional platform that helps investors gain more exposure to
cryptocurrency via an over-the-counter trading desk.

19. Juan Benet - @juanbenet - Juan is the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs, the company
behind innovations like IPFS (a hypermedia protocol) and Filecoin (a crypto-driven file
storage network). He's a serial entrepreneur that has started up businesses in fields as
diverse as mobile gaming and knowledge sharing.

20. Dr Craig S Wright - @ProfFaustus - Craig is a computer scientist and entrepreneur perhaps
best known for his involvement as one of the key pioneers behind Bitcoin. He's now one of
the leaders of the Bitcoin SV protocol, created in late 2018.

21. Brandon Chez - @coinmarketcap - Brandon is the CEO of CoinMarketCap, a website which
tracks crypto prices and data for more than a thousand cryptocurrencies. It's now one of
the world's top sources for crypto data, and has significant influence on the markets
themselves.

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22. Elizabeth Stark - @starkness - Elizabeth is the founder and CEO of Lightning Labs, a San
Francisco-based blockchain development startup. Earlier this year, she became a fellow at
the Coin Center, a research center focused on developing government policy around
decentralized technologies.

23. Charles Hoskinson - @iohk_charles - Charles is a serial entrepreneur in the crypto industry,
having founded three crypto startups (IOHK, Invictus Innovations, and Ethereum) in the
past several years. He is also involved in developing Cardano, a third-generation
cryptocurrency launched last year.

24. Olaf Carlson-Wee - @zxocw - Olaf is the billionare CEO and founder of Polychain Capital, a
crypto hedge fund that manages hundreds of millions in assets. Prior to founding
Polychain, Olaf spent several years as a Product Manager at Coinbase.

25. Mike Kayamori - @MikeKayamori - Mike is the CEO of Liquid, the first global
cryptocurrency exchange to be regulated by the Japanese Financial Services Agency. Prior
to Liquid, Mike held c-level positions at Softbank, Gungho Asia and Bharti Group.

26. John McAfee - @officialmcafee - John McAfee is a crypto investor and entrepreneur. His
ventures range from serving as CEO of enterprise crypto startup Luxcore, to doing
influencer marketing for emerging cryptocurrencies.

27. Pavel Durov - @durov - The serial Russian entrepreneur is perhaps best known for
orchestrating Telegram's record-setting ICO last year, but he also founded VKontakte
(Russia's equivalent to Facebook) and is involved in a number of other crypto projects as a
mentor and advisor.

28. Yuzo Kano - @yuzokano - After an extensive career in banking at Goldman Sachs, Yuzo
founded bitFlyer, one of Japan's longest-running crypto exchanges (and the fourth-largest
in the world in terms of annual turnover). He's now leading the exchange on an ambitious
international expansion program.

29. Laura Shin - @laurashin - Laura is Forbes's senior editor covering crypto and blockchain
technology, writing regularly for both its website and Forbes magazine. In addition, she
also hosts Unchained - one of the most popular and top-rated podcasts in crypto.

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30. Kathryn Haun - @katie_haun - Kathryn is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and
is an independent director at Coinbase, where she helps lead its Audit and Risk divisions.
Prior to her time in the crypto industry, Kathryn was a federal prosecutor for the US
Department of Justice, where she focused on financial fraud cases.

31. Jed McCaleb - @jedmccaleb - Jed is the cofounder and CTO of the crypto startup Stellar.
Prior to helping startup Stellar, Jed was the CTO of Ripple, and he's perhaps best-known
for creating the ill-fated Mt Gox exchange (which shuttered in 2014). Jed also founded the
eDonkey network, a pioneering P2P network that facilitated file transfers for thousands of
users around the world.

32. Dan Morehead - @dan_pantera - Dan is the founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, one of the
best-performing crypto hedge funds in the world and one of the first hedge funds to launch
blockchain-focused products for investors. He's also the chairman of Bitstamp, one of the
world's largest crypto exchanges.

33. Nejc Kodrič - @nejc_kodric - Nejc is the cofounder and CEO of Bitstamp, one of the world's
highest-volume crypto exchanges. Involved in crypto since 2011, Nejc was an early
adopter of Bitcoin and eventually built Bitstamp into the first fully-licensed digital
currency exchange in the EU.

34. Dominik Schiener - @domschiener - Italian entrepreneur Dominik Schiener is the co-
founder of blockchain startup IOTA, which is building a next generation blockchain that
operates on a trustless basis. He's also the co-chairman of the IOTA Foundation, which
encourages development on the platform and helps to foster the broader IOTA community.

35. Bryan Bishop - @kanzure - Bryan is a well-known developer focused on Bitcoin Core, and
he's also a key source of updates on crypto for the Bitcoin development community. Earlier
this year, Bryan made waves for his letter to the SEC warning against enterprise adoption
of crypto.

36. Jesse Powell - @jespow - Jesse is the founder and CEO of the Kraken Bitcoin exchange, one
of the largest crypto exchanges in the world in terms of trading volume. He's been involved
with digital currencies for more than 15 years, and previously ran an online gaming startup
for more than a decade.

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37. Arianna Simpson - @AriannaSimpson - Arianna is the Managing Director and Founder of
crypto hedge fund Autonomous Partners, which has already raised more than $10M from
investors like Coinbase and Union Square Ventures. Arianna also advises several other
crypto startups, and was an early employee at crypto exchange BitGo, now a leader in the
institutional-grade crypto products industry.

38. Bart Stephens - @pbartstephens - Bart is a co-founder and Managing Partner at

Blockchain Capital, a VC investmend fund focused on the crypto and blockchain space. In
addition, he also heads up his own family fund, Stephens Investment Management, which
takes a diversified investment strategy beyond crypto.

39. Marc Andreessen - @pmarca - Legendary entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen has
long been on the cutting edge of crypto, and this year he extended his stake in the
technology by setting up a16z Crypto, a $300M VC fund that's now focused exclusively on
investing in promising crypto and blockchain projects.

40. Daniel Larimer - @bytemaster7 - Daniel is a serial crypto entrepreneur and the CTO of
Block.one, which oversees development of the EOS protocol and platform. He's also the
inventor of DPOS, a revolutionary proof of stake-driven consensus algorithm.

41. Tricia Martinez - @TriciaTita - Tricia is the founder and CEO of Wala, a blockchain-based
financial services app that's seeking to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrencies in
emerging markets. The Cape Town-based entrepreneur also heads up Wala's nonprofit
arm, the Dala Foundation.

42. Arthur Hayes - @cryptohayes - Arther is the co-founder and CEO of BitMex, one of the
world's largest crypto exchanges. With years of experience in the banking industry at
Citigroup, Arthur is now helping the Hong Kong-based exchange execute on its ambitious
growth strategy.

43. Bobby Lee - @bobbyclee - Bobby is the co-founder of BTCC (formerly BTC China), one of
Asia's leading digital asset exchanges. He's also a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation
and remains highly active in China's crypto community.

44. Valery Vavilov - @valeryvavilov - Valery is the co-founder and CEO of Bitfury, Europe's
largest Bitcoin mining company. In addition to conducting mining, Valery also helps the

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Bitfury Group develop its software and hardware solutions in the blockchain space for
both enterprises and governments alike.

45. Adam Ludwin - @adamludwin - Adam is the CEO of Interstellar, a blockchain startup
formed by Chain (another of Adam's companies) and Lightyear to accelerate development
of applications for the Stellar platform.

46. Charlie Shrem - @CharlieShrem - Charlie is the founder of crypto advisory firm CryptoIQ, a
co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation, and the Head of Business Development at Jaxx, a
crypto wallet service. Shrem helped found some of the earliest bitcoin startups, and has
been an investor in Bitcoin since 2011.

47. Star Xu - @starokcoin - Star is the co-founder and CEO of OKEx, one of the world's largest
crypto exchanges. He recently announced plans to release a stablecoin pegged to the
Chinese Yuan, which would be the first of its kind on the market today.

48. Michael Arrington - @arrington - Perhaps best known as the founder of TechCrunch,
Michael Arrington has now gotten involved in crypto in a big way. His investment fund,
Arrington XRP Capital, invests in blockchain startups, with more than $100M in
investments to date. Around 50% of Arrington's net worth is now held in crypto, and he
recently announced plans to pivot XRP Capital to focusing on the Asia-Pacific region for
future investments.

49. Naval Ravikant - @naval - A widely-respected thinker in the tech community, Naval looms
large in the world of crypto as well - he's a prolific advisor and investor in numerous crypto
startups. After founding AngelList in 2010, last year Naval spun off CoinList as a separate
entity. The organization's goal is to provide quality ICO and advisory services to
entrepreneurs and investors in the blockchain space.

50. Justin Sun - @justinsuntron - Justin is the founder and CEO of TRON (one of the largest
cryptocurrencies in the world in terms of market cap), and he also heads up its nonprofit
arm, the Tron Foundation. Prior to founding TRON, Justin spent several years at Ripple as
its Chief Representative in China.

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51. Blythe Masters - @blythemasters - Blythe is the CEO of Digital Asset Holdings, a fintech
startup that's developing distributed ledger technology for the financial industry.
Previously, Blythe spent time as an executive at JP Morgan Chase.

52. @ErikVoorhees - Erik is the CEO and founder of Zug-based Shapeshift - an instant,
decentralized exchange for digital assets. He is also the cofounder of bitcoin startups
Coinapult and SatoshiDice, and formerly was the Director of Marketing for BitInstant, one
of the earliest crypto exchanges.

53. Don Tapscott - @dtapscott - Don is a world-renowned author and pubilc speaker, and in
recent years he's become more passionate about blockchain than ever. He's the founder of
the Blockchain Research Institute, which helps organizations navigate the blockchain
ecosystem, and co-wrote the bestselling book The Blockchain Revolution.

54. Apolo Anton Ohno - @ApoloOhno - Eight-time US Olympic gold medalist Apolo Ohno
recently began foraying into crypto when he founded HybridBlock, a crypto trading
platform designed for novice and institutional investors alike. Ohno and his team plan to
raise $50M in the platform's ICO, and have just launched the exchange's first line of
products.

55. Vinny Lingham - @VinnyLingham - Vinny is a crypto investor and entrepreneur who's the
CEO and co-founder of Civic, an identity management platform. He's also the founder of
SiliconCape, a nonprofit focused on attracting startups and tech investment to South
Africa.

56. Anthony Pompliano - @apompliano - Anthony Pompliano is the founder of Morgan Creek
Digital Assets, an investment firm that helps provide access to blockchain technology for
institutional investors. He previously founded venture investment firm Full Tilt Capital,
which was later sold to Morgan Creek.

57. Jimmy Song - @jimmysong - Jimmy is a well-known Bitcoin educator, developer, and
entrepreneur. Based in Austin, he runs the wildly popular "Programming Blockchain"
course, which teaches the basics of blockchain development - and as a prominent public
speaker, he's also a regular on the crypto conference circuit.

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58. Ari Paul - @AriDavidPaul - Ari is the CIO and Managing Partner of BlockTower Capital, an
investment firm that leverages professional trading and portfolio management in the
crypto markets. Prior to his time in crypto, Ari was the portfolio manager for the principal
hedge fund run by the University of Chicago.

59. Tuur Demeester - @TuurDemeester - Tuur is the founder and CEO of Austin-based
Adamant Capital, a crypto fund focused on investing in Bitcoin and other digital currencies.
Tuur is also a widely-read cryptoeconomist, and he also speaks frequently at crypto
conferences around the world.

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61. Tim Draper - @timdraper - Tim Draper is one of the world's best-known venture
capitalists, and he's perhaps most famous for his prescient 2014 purchase of 30,000
Bitcoins at a US government auction. He's well-known for his frequent Bitcoin price
predictions, and reports on the crypto markets.

62. Connie Gallippi - @conniegallippi - Connie is the founder and Executive Director at
BitGive, the world's first government-recognized Bitcoin nonprofit. The organization is
aimed at leveraging cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology to empower charitable
organizations around the world.

63. Ryan Selkis - @twobitidiot - Ryan is the Founder and CEO of Messari, an open data library
for crypto assets. Prior to founding Messari, Ryan was the Managing Director of CoinDesk,
one of the world's largest crypto news websites.

64. Riccardo Spagni - @fluffypony - Riccardo is a critical member of the Monero Core team,
and as its project lead, he's one of the key members maintaining the platform. With a
background in software development, Riccardo is the most prolific developer working on
Monero at the moment, and he's the public face of the organization as well - giving regular
talks on the cryptocurrency at conferences and meetups around the world.

65. Jon Matonis - @jonmatonis - Jon Matonis is the founding director and executive director of
the Bitcoin Foundation, an organization that's driving awareness around Bitcoin and
establishing best practices around the platform for businesses to leverage. As a longtime

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banking professional, Matonis also serves on the board of directors at Globitex, an

institutional-grade crypto exchange based in Lithuania.

66. Vlad Zamfir - @VladZamfir - Blockchain researcher Vlad Zamfir has been involved in
crypto for years, and he's presently a full-time researcher at the Ethereum Foundation.
He's now working on a solution for sharding the Ethereum blockchain, and presented a
proof-of-concept for his idea at a hackathon earlier this year.

67. Da Hongfei - @dahongfei - A true pioneer in Asia's crypto ecosystem, Da is the co-founder
of NEO (formerly known as AntShares), one of the most widely-used cryptocurrencies in
the world. He's also the founder and CEO of China-based OnChain, a blockchain
technology firm that provides consulting services to businesses looking to build their own
enterprise blockchains.

68. Mick Hagen - @mickhagen - Mick is the founder and CEO of Mainframe, a blockchain-
based communication network that's impervious to censorship or surveillance. He's also a
budding angel investor, having made several investments in startups like MyCrypto and
others in recent years.

69. Jeremy Allaire - @jerallaire - Jeremy is the co-founder of Circle, a P2P crypto payments
platform that allows users to store both fiat currency and crypto in one place. Prior to
entering the crypto industry, the serial entrepreneur founded Brightcove, an online video
streaming platform that went public in 2012.

70. Linda Xie - @ljxie - Linda is the cofounder and Managing Director of San Francisco-based
Scalar Capital, a cryptoasset hedge fund that's already raised more than $20M in funding
from institutional and private investors. Prior to founding Scalar, Xie worked in product
management at Coinbase and held a number of roles in the banking industry as well.

71. James Radecki - @JamesRadecki32 - James is the Global Head of Business Development at
Cumberland, a division of DRW that acts as one of the largest Bitcoin trading desks in the
world. Prior to his time in crypto, James spent nearly two decades as a Managing Director
at Goldman Sachs.

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72. Mark Yusko - @MarkYusko - Mark is the founder and CIO of Morgan Creek Capital
Management (parent company of Morgan Creek Digital), an investment firm that advises
pension funds and family offices.

73. Jill Carlson - @_jillruth - Jill is a Cryptocurrency Consultant at Juno, her consulting firm
focused on providing advisory services to crypto and blockchain startups. Prior to setting
out on her own, Jill was a strategy lead at Chain, and was a credit trader at Goldman Sachs
for several years as well.

74. Tone Vays - @ToneVays - Formerly a VP at JP Morgan Chase, Tone is now a crypto pundit,
analyst, and investor who's most famous for hosting the CryptoScam YouTube podcast,
which has more than 75K subscribers.

75. Kris Marszalek - @Kris_HK - Kris is the CEO of Crypto.com accelerating the world's
transition to cryptocurrency. In 2018, Crypto.com rebranded, shipped its MCO Visa Cards
in Singapore, and announced Crypto.com Chain and Crypto.com Pay.

76. Jeff Wilcke - @jeffehh - Jeff Wilcke is a co-founder of Ethereum and a co-founder of
Amsterdam-based Grid Games. He's a prolific developer who's also quite active on Twitter,
sharing frequent insights and updates from the Ethereum ecosystem.

77. Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn - @zooko - Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn is a cybersecurity specialist and

the CEO of privacy-focused cryptocurrency zCash. As a well-known cyberphunk, Zooko
was also responsible for the creation of the decentralized system Tahoe-Least-Authority
File Store, which is still used by numerous organizations as an online backup system.

78. Pierre Rochard - @pierre_rochard - Pierre is a software engineer and CEO of Bitcoin
Advisory, a New York-based advisory firm that helps hedge funds and crypto investing
groups make better investment decisions. He's also the co-founder of the Satoshi
Nakamoto Institute, a non-profit that curates the best primary source literature on crypto.

79. Matt Corallo - @TheBlueMatt - Matt is a Bitcoin developer who works full-time on open-
source Bitcoin projects at Chaincode Labs, a crypto incubator that helps coordinate efforts
among disparate Bitcoin development startups.

80. Lon Wong - @2017lon - Lon is the CEO of Gibraltar-based blockchain streaming platform
ProximaX. He's also the President of the NEM.io foundation, which seeks to promote the

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further development of NEM technology. Lon is active in the crypto advisory space as well,
serving as an advisor to startups like Huobi, Liven, and others.

81. Adam Draper - @AdamDraper - Adam is the founder and Managing Director of Boost VC, a
venture capital firm focused on the crypto industry. As part of Boost, Adam also runs Boost
Incubator, an incubator focused on helping crypto startups scale and achieve mass market
adoption.

82. Stephen Pair - @spair - Stephen is the cofounder and CEO of BitPay, one of the very first
companies founded in the Bitcoin payments arena. With tenures at companies like IBM
and others, Stephen has long been involved in the software development field, and now
speaks regularly at crypto events around the world.

83. Matthew Tan - @etherscan - Matthew is the CEO and Founder of Etherscan and Blockscan
- both Blockchain API and analytics platforms. With more than two decades of experience
in the high tech industry, Matthew also acts as an advisor to a number of crypto startups.

84. Tushar Jain - @TusharJain_- Tushar is a Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, an Austin-
based cryptofund that uses venture capital strategies to achieve market liquidity in the
crypto markets. Prior to Multicoin, Tushar helped found ePatientFinder, a healthcare and
medtech startup.

85. Luis Iván Cuende - @licuende - Luis is the co-founder of the Aragon Project, an Ethereum-
based blockchain collaboration tool - and he also heads up its for-profit entity, Aragon One.
Luis is an active advisor, and presently mentors a number of blockchain projects around
the world.

86. Mike Belshe - @mikebelshe - A longtime computer science and programming specialist,
Mike is the co-founder and CEO of Bitgo, an institutional-grade crypto investment service.
He was also the inventor of SPDY (now known as HTTP 2.0) and previously co-founded
Lookout Software (which was acquired by Microsoft in 2006).

87. Josh Fraser - @joshfraser - Josh is the co-founder of Origin Protocol, a protocol for building
decentralized sharing economy marketplaces using Dapps. A seasoned crypto investor and
entrepreneur, Josh speaks frequently at conferences around the world on Origin's mission
and vision.

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88. Marco Streng - @Marco_Streng - Marco is the founder and CEO of Genesis Mining, which,
with more than 2 million customers worldwide, is now the world's largest cloud-based
crypto mining company. He's a frequent public speaker on blockchain, and appears
regularly at conferences to speak about crypto.

89. Matthew Spoke - @mattspoke - Matthew is the founder of the AION Network, a multi-
chain blockchain platform designed to address many of the key scalability challenges posed
by traditional blockchain development efforts today.

90. Andreas M. Antonopoulos - @aantonop - Andreas is a world-famous author, entrepreneur,

and speaker who's passionate about bringing the excitement of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency
to the world. He co-hosts the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast, and also wrote the first edition of
Mastering Bitcoin, which was published last year.

91. Micah Winkelspecht - @winkelspecht - Micah is the CEO of Gem that built one of the first
multisig cryptocurrency wallets and a platform that provided core cryptocurrency
processing, transaction, and security services to companies including Bitwage, GoCoin,
Purse.io and more.

92. Eric Larchevêque - @EricLarch - Eric is the CEO and co-founder of Ledger, a Bitcoin
security startup that focuses on building end to end security solutions for blockchain-
based applications. Eric also founded la Maison du Bitcoin, a maker space for French
entrepreneurs involved in crypto.

93. Ran NeuNer - @cryptomanran - Ran is the host of CNBC's widely-viewed CryptoTrader TV
show, one of the most popular crypto-related shows on television. He's also the founder of
Onchain Capital, a crypto investment and advisory group.

94. Meltem Demirors - @Melt_Dem - Meltem is a cryptocurrency investor and advisor that's
perhaps best known for her involvement with crypto treasury startup CoinShares, where
she serves as its Chief Strategy Officer. She also is a prolific lecturer on blockchain, and
presently teaches on the subject at both the University of Oxford and MIT's Media Lab.

95. Dan Wasyluk - @blockchaindan - 'Blockchain Dan' is the founder and CEO of Blockchain
Foundry, an organization that helps enterprises build blockchain-based software

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applications. He's also a core contributor to the Syscoin protocol, which is the world's
fastest token creation platform.

96. Julian Zawistowski - @julianzawist - Julian is the CEO and co-founder of Golem Factory, an
organization that's building what it describes as "the first truly decentralized
supercomputer". In addition to being a crypto entrepreneur, Julian is also a mentor and
advisor to several other blockchain projects.

97. Carolyn Reckhow - @CReckhow - Carolyn is the Head of Operations and Client Services at
Casa, a dApp startup building a blockchain-based cryptographic key platform. Prior to
Casa, Carolyn was the Director of Global Operations for New York-based ConsenSys.

98. Catherine Coley - @cryptocoley - Catherine is Ripple's Head of XRP Institutional Liquidity.
With more than a decade of experience in the international financial markets, she's now
focused on helping Ripple hone its institutional product offerings, particularly as they
relate to its XRP cryptocurrency.

99. Elizabeth McCauley - @etmccauley - Elizabeth is a freelance blockchain business

development and marketing consultant who also advises crypto companies. She presently
advises startups like Crypto Media Hub and Biterra Capital on their business development
strategy, and posts regularly on Twitter about topics like ICO marketing and crypto
investing.

100. Preethi Kasireddy - @iam_preethi - Preethi is a longtime blockchain engineer who

transitioned from a career at Goldman Sachs to becoming the founder and CEO of
TruStory, a startup that helps organizations detect (and stop) ICO scams before the scam.
The startup raised $3M in funding earlier this year, and its platform is now in development.

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