This is a list of people in blockchain technology, people who do work in the area of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, in particular researchers, business people, and authors. Some people that are notable as programmers are included here because they work in research as well as programming. A few of these people pre-date the invention of this technology; they are now regarded as people in blockchain technology because their work can be seen as leading to the invention of this technology.

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Gavin Andresen Gavin Andresen (Formerly known as Gavin Bell) is an American software developer known for his involvement with bitcoin. He is based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Originally a developer of 3D graphics and virtual reality software, Andresen became inv ...

, former Bitcoin lead developer *

Andreas Antonopoulos Andreas M. Antonopoulos (born 1972 in London) is a British-Greek Bitcoin advocate, tech entrepreneur, and author. He is a host on the ''Speaking of Bitcoin'' podcast (formerly called ''Let's Talk Bitcoin!'') and a teaching fellow for the M.Sc ...

, author of ''Mastering Bitcoin'' *

Jeremy Allaire Jeremy D. Allaire (born 13 May 1971) is an American-born technologist and Internet entrepreneur. He is CEO and founder of the digital currency company Circle and chairman of the board of Brightcove. With his brother JJ Allaire, he co-founded All ...

, CEO and founder of the digital currency company

Circle A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is con ...

and Chairman of the Board of

Brightcove Brightcove, Inc. () is a Boston, Massachusetts–based software company that produces an online video platform. History Brightcove was founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire, who served as Executive Chairman until April 2016, and Bob Mason. The co ...

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Brian Behlendorf Brian Behlendorf (born March 30, 1973) is an American technologist, executive, computer programmer and leading figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software ...

, Executive Director of

Hyperledger Hyperledger (or the Hyperledger Project) is an umbrella project of open source blockchains and related tools, started in December 2015 by the Linux Foundation, and has received contributions from IBM, Intel and SAP Ariba, to support the collabo ...

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Brendan Blumer Brendan Blumer (born 1986) is an American-born Hong Kong-based entrepreneur. He is the CEO of the tech company Block.one, which developed the EOS.IO blockchain platform. Early life Blumer was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When he was ...

, CEO of Block.One *

Vitalik Buterin Vitaly "Vitalik" Buterin (born 1994) is a Russian-Canadian computer programmer and founder of Ethereum. Buterin became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding ''Bitcoin Magazine'' in 2011. In 2014, Buterin deployed Eth ...

, founder of

Ethereum Ethereum is a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. Ether (Abbreviation: ETH; sign: Ξ) is the native cryptocurrency of the platform. Among cryptocurrencies, ether is second only to bitcoin in market capita ...

* Adam Back, author of

Hashcash Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks, and more recently has become known for its use in bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) as part of the mining algorithm. Hashcash was proposed in 1997 by Adam ...

and CEO of

Blockstream Blockstream is a blockchain technology company led by co-founder Adam Back, headquartered in Victoria, Canada, with offices and staff worldwide. The company develops a range of products and services for the storage and transfer of Bitcoin and ot ...

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Wences Casares Wenceslao Casares, also known as Wences Casares (born 26 February 1974) is an Argentinian entrepreneur and businessman based in Silicon Valley based fintech. He is the CEO of Xapo Bank, and founded Internet Argentina, Wanako Games, Patagon, ...

, CEO of

Xapo Xapo is an international, private bank headquartered in Gibraltar and licensed by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission. The company originally provided a bitcoin wallet combined with a cold storage vault and a bitcoin-based debit card ...

* David Chaum, computer scientist, cryptographer and blockchain pioneer.

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* Wei Dai, creator of b-money; inspired the creation of Bitcoin by

Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation. As part of the implementation, Nakam ...

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* Hal Finney, the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction

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* David Gerard, author of ''Attack of the 50-foot Blockchain'' in 2017. *

Tony Gallippi BitPay is a bitcoin payment service provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in May 2011 by Tony Gallippi and Stephen Pair. BitPay provides Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash payment processing services for merchants. ...

, founder of

BitPay BitPay is a bitcoin payment service provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in May 2011 by Tony Gallippi and Stephen Pair. BitPay provides Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash payment processing services for merchants. ...

, a global bitcoin

payment service provider A payment service provider (PSP) is a third-party company that assists businesses to accept electronic payments, such as credit cards and debit cards payments. PSPs act as intermediaries between those who make payments, i.e. consumers, and thos ...

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Charles Hoskinson Charles Hoskinson is an American entrepreneur who is a co-founder of the blockchain engineering company Input Output Global, Inc. (formerly IOHK), and the Cardano blockchain platform, and was a co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform. E ...

, co-founder of

and founder of Cardano

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* Ruja Ignatova, founder of

OneCoin OneCoin is a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme conducted by offshore companies OneCoin Ltd, based in Bulgaria and registered in Dubai, and OneLife Network Ltd (registered in Belize), both founded by Ruja Ignatova in concert with Sebastian Gre ...

, a pyramid scheme promoted as a cryptocurrency.

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Dave Kleiman Dave Kleiman (22 January 1967 – 26 April 2013) was an American computer forensics expert, an author or co-author of multiple books and a frequent speaker at security related events. Craig Steven Wright claims Kleiman was involved in the i ...

associated with Craig Wright * Kofi Genfi, co-founder of Mazzuma

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Chris Larsen Chris Larsen (born 1960) is a business executive and angel investor best known for co-founding several Silicon Valley technology startups, including one based on peer to peer lending. In 1996, he co-founded the online mortgage lender E-Loan, an ...

, CEO of

Ripple Ripple may refer to: Science and technology * Capillary wave, commonly known as ripple, a wave traveling along the phase boundary of a fluid ** Ripple, more generally a disturbance, for example of spacetime in gravitational waves * Ripple (electri ...

Brad Garlinghouse Bradley Kent Garlinghouse (born February 4, 1971) is the CEO of financial technology company Ripple Labs. He previously was the CEO and chairman of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt). Before Hightail, he worked at AOL and Yahoo! He was born February ...

, CEO of

Ripple Labs Ripple Labs, Inc. is an American technology company which develops the Ripple payment protocol and exchange network. Originally named Opencoin and renamed in 2015, the company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. Hist ...

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Blythe Masters Blythe Masters (born 22 March 1969) is a British Private Equity executive and former financial services and fintech executive. She is a former executive at JPMorgan Chase, where she was widely credited as the creator of the credit default swap ...

, CEO of Digital Asset Holdings

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, the name used by the unknown person or people who designed bitcoin * Nii Osae Osae Dade, co-founder of Mazzuma

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Emin Gün Sirer Emin Gün Sirer is a Turkish-American computer scientist. Sirer developed the Avalanche Consensus protocol underlying the Avalanche blockchain platform, and is currently the CEO and co-founder of Ava Labs. He was an associate professor of compu ...

, professor at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

, who studies distributed and peer-to-peer systems *

Jorge Stolfi Jorge Stolfi (born 1950 in São Paulo (city), São Paulo) is a full professor of computer science at the State University of Campinas, working in computer vision, image processing, Spline (mathematics), splines and other function approximation met ...

, Brazilian professor at the

University of Campinas The State University of Campinas ( pt, Universidade Estadual de Campinas), commonly called Unicamp, is a public research university in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Unicamp is consistently ranked among the top universities in Brazil and ...

, cryptocurrency skeptic * Nick Szabo, computer scientist, cryptographer, and legal scholar known for his research in digital contracts currencies.

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* Alex Tapscott, co-author of ''Blockchain Revolution'', CEO and founder of Northwest Passage Ventures, an advisory firm for early-stage blockchain companies *

Don Tapscott Don Tapscott (born June 1, 1947) is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, who specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. He is the CEO of the Tapsc ...

, co-author of ''Blockchain Revolution'', CEO of Tapscott Group, co-founder of Blockchain Research Institute

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Roger Ver Roger Keith Ver (born 27 January 1979) is an early investor in Bitcoin, Bitcoin-related startups and an early promoter of Bitcoin. Ver has sometimes been referred to as "Bitcoin Jesus". He now primarily promotes Bitcoin Cash as Ver sees it as fu ...

, Bitcoin Foundation co-founder, promoter of Bitcoin Cash

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Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (born Bryce Wilcox; 13 May 1974 in Phoenix, Arizona), is an American Colorado-based computer security specialist, self-proclaimed cypherpunk, and CEO of the Electric Coin Company (ECC), a for-profit company leading the develo ...

, creator of the crypto coin, Zcash *

Gavin Wood Gavin James Wood (born 1980) is an English computer scientist, a founder of Ethereum and creator of Polkadot and Kusama. Early life Wood was born in Lancaster, England, United Kingdom. He attended the Lancaster Royal Grammar School. He gradua ...

, co-founder of

* Jihan Wu, co-founder of

Bitmain Bitmain Technologies Ltd., is a privately owned company headquartered in Beijing, China, that designs application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips for bitcoin mining. History It was founded by Micree Zhan and Jihan Wu in 2013. Prior ...

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Micree Zhan Micree Zhan or Zhan Ketuan (; born 29 January 1979) is a Chinese electronics engineer and businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO (with Wu Jihan) of Bitmain, the world's largest computer chip company for cryptocurrency mining. In 2018, Huru ...

, co-founder of

Changpeng Zhao Changpeng Zhao (), commonly known as "CZ", is a Chinese-Canadian business executive. Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume as of July 2022. CZ was born in Jiangsu, China and mov ...

, founder of exchange

Binance Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange which is the largest exchange in the world in terms of daily trading volume of cryptocurrencies. It was founded in 2017 and is registered in the Cayman Islands. Binance was founded by Changpeng Zhao, a d ...

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