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Anthony Pompliano
Anthony Pompliano is a founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital, a hedge fund which specializes in blockchain technology and digital assets, and backed by investment management firm Morgan Creek Capital. Pompliano co-founded Morgan Creek Digital with Mark Yusko and Jason Williams in 2018. He also writes daily newsletters to institutional investors which provide a […]
Jimmy Song
Jimmy Song is a bitcoin advocate, developer and author who has been contributing to open-source bitcoin projects since 2013. Previously working as a software developer in a number of industries, Song joined Monetas, a crypto-finance software company, in 2014. After a one-year stint, Song joined Armory Technologies, an open-source bitcoin wallet management platform, to develop […]
Jameson Lopp
Jameson Lopp is a bitcoin developer and the chief technology officer (CTO) at crypto custody startup Casa, which offers key management services, hardware wallets and the Casa Node for Lightning. Lopp authors articles, shares presentations and provides a page of curated bitcoin resources on his personal website. He worked for institutional-grade crypto custody company BitGo […]
Satoshi Nakamoto
Satoshi Nakamoto is inventor of the Bitcoin protocol, publishing a paper outlining it via the Cryptography Mailing List on November, 1 2008. He then released the first version of the Bitcoin software client in 2009 and participated with others on the project via mailing lists until he finally began to fade from the community toward […]
Patrick Byrne
Patrick Byrne was the CEO of Overstock.com, one of the earliest online retailers to accept bitcoin as payment. Overstock.com is the parent company of blockchain investment firm Medici Ventures and capital markets platform tZERO. Byrne bought Deals.com in 1999 and rebranded the international retailer to Overstock.com. In its early years, Overstock.com gained a reputation for […]
Michael Terpin
Michael Terpin is an American investor, entrepreneur and public relations (PR) agency manager. Terpin in 2013 co-founded BitAngels, an investment network for blockchain technology startups, and Transform Group, a PR firm for the digital currency industry, in 2014. Launched in 2013 by David Johnston, Michael Terpin and Sam Onat Yilmaz, BitAngels was the first angel […]
Tim Draper
Tim Draper, born in 1958, is an American venture capitalist who has invested in multiple cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. He is also the founder of Draper Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (later renamed Threshold) and Draper University of Heroes, a school for early-stage entrepreneurs in San Mateo, CA. Through both his VC funds, Draper has invested […]
Ross Ulbricht
Born in 1984 in Austin, Texas, Ross Ulbricht created and operated the Silk Road website under the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts” from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. This platform, best known for selling illegal drugs, operated as a Tor hidden service that would enable the users to browse it anonymously and securely. Transactions on […]
Chris Larsen
Chris Larsen, born in 1960, is an American business executive, angel investor and the co-founder and former CEO of OpenCoin, which later rebranded to Ripple. Ripple Labs developed their own blockchain technology, the XRP ledger, to improve cross-border payments between various banking systems in the world. The network of financial institutions using all of Ripple’s […]
