1000 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryptocoin 6 Jul 2022 \ parent \ on: Bitcoin Founding Fathers - Let's list the top 56 people who helped bitcoin succeed. bitcoin
That, and a couple other relatively comprehensive lists:
- https://blog.revenuebot.io/2021/04/15/popular-anonymous-personalities-in-the-crypto-industry/
- https://bitcoin.org/en/development#bitcoin-core-contributors
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1774750.0
- https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Category:People_of_the_industry
- https://fr.bitcoin.it/wiki/Personnalit%C3%A9s
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bitcoin_companies
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5136880.msg53014667#msg53014667
- https://www.scribd.com/document/322329558/4-1A-Satoshi-Nakamoto-and-People-1 <-- I don't / won't register, but maybe it is useful
Of those I don't already see listed in this post, ... in chronological order (loosely), from what I can remember and in parenthesis (), what they were known for at the time they started with Bitcoin:
- Jon Matonis (e-Money, Bitcoin Foundation)
- Ian Grigg (Triple Entry Accounting, Financial Cryptography)
- Sirius, a.k.a. Martti Malmi (Bitcoin Dev, Bitcoin.org)
- Ray Dillinger (Bitcoin Dev)
- James A. Donald (Bitcoin Dev)
- Greg Maxwell (Bitcoin Dev)
- ArtForz (early GPU miner who once controlled 25% of the hashrate)
- Patrick McFarland (DiabloMiner)
- Nanotube (Bitcoin-OTC IRC P2P trading marketplace)
- Chris Moore / Doogius (Developer)
- Wladimir van der Laan (Bitcoin Dev, then Bitcoin Core lead)
- Mike Hearn (BitcoinJ)
- Cobra Bitcoin (Bitcoin.org)
- Theymos (BitcoinTalk forum, r/Bitcoin)
- Nils Schneider (Bitcoin Dev)
- Jed McCaleb (Founded Mt. Gox, then sold it to Mark Karpeles, then Ripple, and now Stellar)
- Jerry Brito (Journalist, now CoinCenter)
- Patrick M. Byrne (Overstock.com)
- Peter Vessenes (Bitcoin Foundation)
- James McCarthy / Nefario (GLBSE)
- Mircea Popescu (MPEx options exchange) R.I.P.
- Christian Decker (Developer)
- Tamas Blummer (Bits Of Proof) R.I.P.
- Rick Falkvinge (Privacy, then Bitcoin Cash)
- Con Kolivas (CK Pool)
- Marek Palatinus / Slush (Slush Pool, and now also Braiins)
- Vladimir Marchenko (Marchenko - first cloud mining op)
- Mike Caldwell (Casascius)
- Patrick Strateman (Intersango exchange)
- Ron Gross
- Meni Rosenfeld
- Adam B. Levine (Let's Talk Bitcoin)
- David Schwartz (Cryptographer, Bitcoin Stack Exchange contributor, now Ripple)
- Andreas Schildbach (Bitcoin Wallet)
- Eric Lombrozo (Bitcoin Dev, now Ciphrex)
- Sergio Demian Lerner (Data scientist, now Rootstock)
- Jeremias Kangas (LocalBitcoins)
- Ben Reeves (Blockchain.info)
- Stefan Thomas (WeUseBitcoin.com, then Ripple)
- Tony Gallippi (BitPay)
- Stephen Pair (BitPay)
- Zhou Tong (Bitcoinica)
- Mark Erhardt / Murch (Bitcoin Stack Exchange mod, now Chaincode Labs)
- Cory Fields (Bitcoin Core)
- Matt Corallo (Bitcoin Core)
- Tyler Winklevoss (BitInstant, and now Gemini)
- Cameron Winklevoss (BitInstant, and now Gemini)
- FriedCat (ASICMiner)
- Jihan Wu (Bitmain)
- Nangeng Zhang (Canaan)
- Nejc Kodric (BitStamp)
I forgot, ... Kiba. Kiba!! from BitcoinTalk. Oh man, can't forget Kiba!
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And there is at least one interesting story with almost every name on that list!
Like Stefan Thomas, who earned the bounty of 7,002 BTC for creating a marketing video that appears on that website (WeUseCoins.com, I had it wrong above). Then can't remember the password for the encrypted hard drive.
Or, FriedCat's ASICMiner, ... probably the most profitable ICO ever, listed on a "crypto" securities exchange (GLBSE) that was later shut down by the founder (Nefario, also in the list above), immediately after being questioned by a regulator at a bitcoin conference. Not sure about the current status of Friedcat (Jiang Xinyu), either:
Tracking Friedcat After His Missing in 2015
https://news.8btc.com/tracking-friedcat-after-his-missing-in-2015
Speaking of GLBSE, ... prior to founding GLBSE, Nefario was known for being refused entry into the U.S. for a pre-planned two-month stay in Seattle at the first Bitcoin co-working / incubator. Nefario had little cash ($600) on him and no credit cards, ... he only had a wallet containing thousands of bitcoin. No dice, ... immigration didn't believe (or understadn) his story and sent him back home.
And that incubator in Seattle, ... Peter Vessenes' Coinlab? There's a few stories, ... relating to the Mt. Gox bankruptcy. Too much on that to even begin explaining it here.
Let's see what else ... oh, Vessenes and the Bitcoin Foundation, .. which was later directed by Bruce Fenton, who is currently running to be a U.S. Senator in New Hampshire.
And ... how could I forget to mention ... wait, ... OK, this is long enough. Someone could write a book about all these stories though!
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Thanks for sharing these glimpses of the past!! So many good stories buried in bitcoin history. Wish we could capture them all for posterity.
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