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Crypto People 100: Influential Figures in Cryptocurrency History

Explore 100 people who helped shape Bitcoin, Ethereum, exchanges, DeFi, Web3, crypto investing, mining, cryptography and blockchain infrastructure.

Crypto People 100 influential cryptocurrency figures

Quick Facts

SeriesCrypto People 100
Article IDsP001–P100
Main FocusBitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, Web3 and crypto infrastructure
Page TypeEnglish index page

About This List

Crypto People 100 is a structured encyclopedia index of influential figures connected to cryptocurrency history. The list includes early digital cash pioneers, Bitcoin contributors, Ethereum founders, exchange builders, investors, altcoin creators, DeFi and Web3 leaders, cryptography researchers and policy thinkers.

Each person below links to an individual article page using the P001 to P100 code system.

S-Tier: People Who Shaped Crypto History

10 people
P001 Satoshi Nakamoto › P002 Hal Finney › P003 Adam Back › P004 Wei Dai › P005 Nick Szabo › P006 David Chaum › P007 Gavin Andresen › P008 Laszlo Hanyecz › P009 Pieter Wuille › P010 Greg Maxwell ›

A-Tier: Core Bitcoin Developers

10 people
P011 Peter Todd › P012 Luke Dashjr › P013 Matt Corallo › P014 Wladimir van der Laan › P015 Jimmy Song › P016 Andreas M. Antonopoulos › P017 Jameson Lopp › P018 Elizabeth Stark › P019 Rusty Russell › P020 Christian Decker ›

Ethereum and Smart Contracts

10 people
P021 Vitalik Buterin › P022 Gavin Wood › P023 Joseph Lubin › P024 Charles Hoskinson › P025 Anthony Di Iorio › P026 Mihai Alisie › P027 Amir Chetrit › P028 Jeffrey Wilcke › P029 Danny Ryan › P030 Justin Drake ›

Exchange Builders

10 people
P031 Changpeng Zhao › P032 Brian Armstrong › P033 Jesse Powell › P034 Arthur Hayes › P035 Sam Bankman-Fried › P036 Ben Zhou › P037 Star Xu › P038 Leon Li › P039 Johnny Lyu › P040 John Chen ›

Investors

10 people
P041 Michael Saylor › P042 Tim Draper › P043 Cathie Wood › P044 Wences Casares › P045 Chamath Palihapitiya › P046 Paul Tudor Jones › P047 Raoul Pal › P048 Anthony Pompliano › P049 Elon Musk › P050 Jack Dorsey ›

Altcoin Founders

10 people
P051 Jed McCaleb › P052 Chris Larsen › P053 Brad Garlinghouse › P054 Justin Sun › P055 Do Kwon › P056 Anatoly Yakovenko › P057 Emin Gün Sirer › P058 Silvio Micali › P059 Sunny King › P060 Charlie Lee ›

DeFi and Web3

10 people
P061 Hayden Adams › P062 Andre Cronje › P063 Rune Christensen › P064 Stani Kulechov › P065 Robert Leshner › P066 Kain Warwick › P067 Daniel Larimer › P068 Sergey Nazarov › P069 Tomasz Stańczak › P070 Juan Benet ›

Mining, Cryptography and Infrastructure

10 people
P071 Jihan Wu › P072 Micree Zhan › P073 Bram Cohen › P074 Whitfield Diffie › P075 Martin Hellman › P076 Ron Rivest › P077 Adi Shamir › P078 Leonard Adleman › P079 Ralph Merkle › P080 Phil Zimmermann ›

Economics, Ideas and Policy

10 people
P081 Milton Friedman › P082 Friedrich Hayek › P083 Ludwig von Mises › P084 Saifedean Ammous › P085 Balaji Srinivasan › P086 Lyn Alden › P087 Nic Carter › P088 Andreas Brekken › P089 Roger Ver › P090 Roger Wattenhofer ›

Other Influential Figures

10 people
P091 Erik Voorhees › P092 Brock Pierce › P093 Caitlin Long › P094 Meltem Demirors › P095 David Marcus › P096 Paolo Ardoino › P097 Giancarlo Devasini › P098 Arthur Britto › P099 David Schwartz › P100 Barry Silbert ›

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