The crypto space certainly has a lot of strong personalities. We’ve compiled a list of crypto crazy; the most outlandish, outspoken, and outright insane people in the cryptocurrency industry.

John McAfee

If you know crypto, you know John McAfee. If you know John McAfee, you know crazy. This man takes the eccentric millionaire trope to a new level. In response to numerous lawsuits, McAfee left the United States to live in Belize. This list isn’t ranked but if it was the cyber security pioneer would certainly be at the top. For a more detailed explanation of the madness that is McAfee we suggest this ABC News article.

In 2017 he took part in the creation of what he called an “unhackable” wallet with Bitfi. He invited the community to try to hack the wallet, offering a $250,000 bounty to anyone who could do it. Weeks after the release, a software enthusiast by the twitter name @OverSoftNL successfully gained root access to the wallet. McAfee then debated what constitutes a hack and refused to pay the bounty.

He has also been the subject of several criminal investigations include the murder of Gregory Faull in Belize.

He made headlines after posting (and then deleting) a racially-charged tweet targeting the black community:

Here’s some more of that McAfee genius at work.

if not, I will eat my dick on national television. — John McAfee (@officialmcafee) July 17, 2017

Justin Sun

The guy who inspired the phrase “announcing the announcement”.

Maybe insane is the wrong word but between several instances of plagiarism and a propensity to hype relatively insignificant Tron updates he certainly has earned a spot on this list. Let’s not forget this seedy situation.

When CZ, CEO of Binance, recently announce upcoming good news his followers jokingly claimed his account had been hacked by Mr. Sun.

CZ hacked by Justin Sun. Oh no sir — ❄Walken in a Crypto Wonderland❄ (@cryptochrisw) October 22, 2018

Craig Wright

“Faketoshi” as Charlie Lee so eloquently puts it. CSW claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto despite failing to produce any evidence. The man has built himself a nasty reputation in the crypto world and is known to have ruffled more than a couple feathers with top industry leaders.

Also, who can forget this freak out:

More recently, Wright has been at the front of Bitcoin SV, a fork of Bitcoin in competition with Roger Ver’s Bitcoin Cash.

Roger Ver

Ver’s interesting past story begins prior to getting involved in cryptocurrencies. In 2002, at the age of 23, Roger Ver purchased 49 pounds of an explosive material known as “Pest Control Report 2000”, 14 pounds of which he then sold on eBay and shipped via the US Postal Service. Roger was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for the offense.

Upon completing his sentence Mr. Ver moved to Japan. He then became a successful early adopter of bitcoin, renounced his U.S. citizenship (bye bye taxes) and is now a citizen of St. Kitts & Nevis. He has also expressed that he does not believe insider trader is a crime.

Here’s a sample of some of that crazy:

Whatever you do do NOT refer to Bitcoin Cash as BCash in front of Roger.

Bruno Block

So, we aren’t actually sure if Bruno Block is real. Mr. Block, the anonymous Founder and Architect of decentralized storage solution Oyster (PRL), recently exit scammed by exploiting a vulnerability in the smart contract. He printed and then dumped a large amount of coins on KuCoin, putting the project in a death spiral. While an exit scam is not exactly surprising in the cryptocurrency industry it’s the story behind Oyster that makes it particularly unusual.

Oyster was a very well recognized organization by the community. The company put out technologically sound updates frequently and there was absolutely no signs of anything unsavory going on internally. More so, it appears many of the Oyster team members were also shocked by the event.

Another interesting aspect of the situation is the amount of money Bruno Block made off with, about $300,000. Certainly no one will complain if they’re given that amount of money but, relative to the total value of Oyster, the amount seems like a small payoff for potentially dooming the otherwise successful company. Bruno…you crazy.