{"id":1318,"date":"2022-10-11T16:52:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/trends\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2023-10-05T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T21:34:55","slug":"top-cryptocurrency-traders-to-follow-most-influential-people-in-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/trends\/celebrity\/top-cryptocurrency-traders-to-follow-most-influential-people-in-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Cryptocurrency Traders To Follow + Most INFLUENTIAL People in Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Top Cryptocurrency Traders To Follow + Best Crypto Exchanges + Top Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

THE 20 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN CRYPTO<\/h2>\n\n\n

Changpeng Zhao<\/h2>\n
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Changpeng Zhao is CEO of Binance<\/strong>, the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency exchange<\/strong> by volume, launched in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He was number three on the Forbes 2018 list of The Richest People in Cryptocurrency.<\/strong><\/span> Prior to this, he was Head of Development at Blockchain<\/strong> and Chief Technology Officer of OK Coin<\/strong>. He also developed trading software<\/strong> at Bloomberg and the Tokyo Stock Exchange<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Vitalik Buterin<\/h2>\n
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Vitalik Buterin is Founder of Ethereum<\/strong><\/a>, the second-largest cryptocurrency platform after Bitcoin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A researcher and developer, he also co-founded Bitcoin Magazine. Ethereum<\/strong>, called a \u201cdecentralized mining network and software development platform rolled into one\u201d went live in 2015 with 65 million Ether (ETH<\/strong>) coins. Its market capitalization was around $16 billion in early 2020 (Bitcoin\u2019s was around $150 billion).<\/p>\n

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Jihan Wu<\/h3>\n
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Jihan Wu is Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO at Bitmain Technologies<\/strong>, a semiconductor company offering servers, chips, and cloud solutions for AI and blockchain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Their products include the cryptocurrency<\/a> mining<\/strong> platform Antpool, blockchain supercomputing hardware Antminer, and the mining pool<\/strong> and block explorer BTC<\/strong>.com. Prior to this, he was Investment Manager at China Grand Prosperity Investment.<\/p>\n

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Barry Silbert<\/h3>\n
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Barry Silbert is Founder and CEO of the pivotal blockchain company Digital Currency Group<\/strong>, parent company of CoinDesk<\/strong>, Grayscale<\/strong>, Genesis<\/strong>, Foundry<\/strong>, and Luno<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prior to this, he was Founder and CEO of SecondMarket (acquired by NASDAQ<\/strong>). He was Crain\u2019s and Ernst & Young\u2019s Entrepreneur of the Year and appeared on Fortune\u2019s 40 Under 40 list.<\/p>\n

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Brian Armstrong<\/h3>\n
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Brian Armstrong is Co-founder and CEO at the open cryptocurrency trading platform<\/strong> and wallet Coinbase<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He also co-founded GiveCrypto<\/strong>, a platform for philanthropy that encourages giving cryptocurrency to underprivileged people who otherwise could not access finance or investment opportunities. Prior to this, he founded UniversityTutor.com and worked at Airbnb, IBM, and Deloitte.<\/p>\n

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Charles Hoskinson<\/h3>\n
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Charles Hoskinson is Co-founder of Input Output HK (IOHK<\/strong>), an industry-leading blockchain<\/strong> and cryptocurrency<\/strong> research company serving academic institutions, corporations, and government agencies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Co-founder of Invictus Innovations (Bitshares Network) and Ethereum<\/strong>, he was Founding Chairman of the educational committee of the Bitcoin<\/strong> Foundation and founded the Cryptocurrency Research Group. He also led development of the cryptocurrency Cardano<\/strong><\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Michael Saylor<\/h3>\n
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Michael Saylor is Founder, Chairman, and CEO at MicroStrategy<\/strong>, an enterprise analytics and mobility software company (the largest business intelligence company that is publicly traded<\/strong>), which invested $425 million in Bitcoin as a safer alternative to gold and bonds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He also created Saylor Academy, a free online education platform, and wrote \u201cThe Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk<\/h2>\n
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Elon Reeve Musk FRS is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A centibillionaire, Musk is one of the richest people in the world.<\/p>\n

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Jack Dorsey<\/h2>\n
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Jack Dorsey is Co-founder and CEO of Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, and Founder and CEO of the financial services company Square.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In October 2020, Square invested $50 million (25% of their assets) in Bitcoin<\/strong>, and he has said that Bitcoin is \u201cprobably the best\u201d internet currency. He also plans to establish Bluesky, a non-profit platform developing blockchain social media protocols.<\/p>\n

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Raoul Pal<\/h3>\n
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Raoul Pal is Founder and CEO of Real Vision<\/strong>, a \u201cdisruptive financial media brand\u201d exploring business, finance, and economics using long-form interviews and in-depth research and analysis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He is also Founder and CEO of The Global Macro Investor<\/strong>, an investment strategy research firm serving major hedge, pension, sovereign wealth, and family funds.<\/p>\n

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Kris Marszalek<\/h3>\n
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Kris Marszalek is CEO at Crypto.com, a banking platform offering trades<\/strong>, payments, Visa cards, interest-bearing savings, and credit for 80+ crypto coins and serving 5+ million clients.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prior to this, he was CEO of Ensogo, the one-time top online retailer in Southeast Asia (previously iBuy Group). He also founded or co-founded BEECRAZY, Yiyi, and Starline Polska.<\/p>\n

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Sam Bankman-Fried<\/h2>\n
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Sam Bankman-Fried is CEO at the cryptocurrency derivative exchange FTX<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They offer financial products such as options, leveraged tokens, derivatives, and volatility products and serve both experienced and novice traders. He is also CEO of Alameda Research, a cryptocurrency trading fund managing $70 million in assets and trading $1 billion per day in every global market and exchange<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Meltem Demirors<\/h3>\n
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Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares<\/strong>, an industry-leading digital asset fund managing $1+ billion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She was also an Inaugural Member of the Blockchain Council at World Economic Forum. She lectures on blockchain at Oxford and is Advisor for Future Commerce at MIT Media Lab. Prior to this, she was Vice President at Digital Currency Group.<\/p>\n

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Michael Novogratz<\/h3>\n
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Michael Novogratz is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Galaxy Digital<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He was formerly a Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Prior to Fortress, Mr. Novogratz spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected Partner in 1998. Mr. Novogratz served on the New York Federal Reserve\u2019s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets from 2012 \u2013 2015. Mr. Novogratz serves as the Chairman of The Bail Project and has made criminal justice reform a focus of his family\u2019s foundation.<\/p>\n

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Gavin Wood<\/h3>\n
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Gavin Wood is President and Founder at Web3<\/strong> Foundation, developers of the Polkadot<\/strong> Protocol that will allow a completely decentralized web by enabling independent blockchains to exchange information and execute transactions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prior to this, he was Co-founder of Ethereum, inventor of its Solidity contract language, and author of the Yellow Paper, which was the first blockchain protocol to be formally specified.<\/p>\n

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Adam Back<\/h3>\n
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Adam Back is Co-founder and CEO of Blockstream<\/strong>, a blockchain and Bitcoin technology company and creators of Liquid, a sidechain-based network.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A cryptographer, he is a leader in \u201cBitcoin-like\u201d currencies and creator of Hashcash. He has been suggested to be the mysterious figure Satoshi Nakamoto (which he denies), and he was one of eight references in his Bitcoin white paper.<\/p>\n

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Sergey Nazarov<\/h3>\n
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Sergey Nazarov is Co-founder of Chainlink<\/strong> and Co-founder and CEO of SmartContract<\/strong>, connecting smart contracts to external data, APIs, and bank payment networks and proving functionality to these tamper-proof contracts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prior to this, he was Co-founder and CEO of Secure Asset Exchange, smart contracts for real-time revenue sharing, and Co-founder and CEO of CryptaMail, a decentralized, secure email service.<\/p>\n

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Caitlin Long<\/h3>\n
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Caitlin Long is Founder and CEO at Avanti Bank & Trust and Chairman of WyoHackathon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A long-time blockchain and Bitcoin advocate, she was in Morgan Stanley\u2019s blockchain group and Wyoming Blockchain Task Force, and was Chairman\/President of Symbiont, CustodyRisk\u2019s 2017\u2019s FinTech Company of the Year. In 2016, she received MarketsMedia Women in Finance Award for Excellence in Blockchain.<\/p>\n

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Danny Ryan<\/h3>\n
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Danny Ryan is a researcher leading Eth2 at the Ethereum<\/strong> Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prior to this, he was a cryptocurrency investor and contributed to open-source Ethereum projects. He writes about Eth2 for the community and tweets about updates to this project.<\/p>\n

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Dan Schulman<\/h3>\n
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Dan Schulman is President and CEO of PayPal<\/strong>, which has recently allowed users to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrencies within their PayPal wallets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prior to this, he was in leadership roles at Verizon, AT&T, NortonLifeLock, American Express, Sprint, Priceline, and others. He was also named by Fortune as one of the top 20 Businesspersons of the Year.<\/p>\n

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