Through consensus by Bitcoin.com team unveiled the list of the 10 most influential people within the platform, which have collaborated in strengthening, maintenance, development and environment benefits bitcoin thus obtaining the greatest impact to date.

10.-Pieter Wuille: Joining the development team in May 2011, with more than 650 GitHub commits to the code of Bitcoin and is the lead author of libsecp256k1, a library for efficient Elliptic Curve Cryptography for use in bitcoin. Wuille worked as an engineer at Google Site Reliability before joining Blockstream, an organization established for accelerated asset and intelligent open contracts related to Bitcoin development. Growing up in Belgium, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Leuven, where he focused on designing programming languages.

9.-Barry Silbert: Is one of the biggest investors to date Bitco, is the founder of the group digital currency, this ell focuses on infrastructure development by investing in Bitcoin, start and growth of companies in the space Bitcoin.

8.-Roger View: Was the first person in the world to invest in Bitcoin, helping to finance the first generation of companies Bitcoin almost exclusively by itself. Also known in the community as “Bitcoin Jesus,” See Bitcoin believes that technology is the perfect fit for voluntaryism, the idea that all human interactions should be by mutual agreement, or not at all.

7.-Patrick Byrne: It is referred to the “Bitcoin Messiah” or “the plague of Wall Street” in the press, is responsible for implementing , a company that aims to revolutionize the financial industry with the technology blockchain ” making the most equitable, transparent and accessible to all market participants transactions. ” Recently, however, Byrne announced that it will take a leave of absence due to a medical condition, causing many experts to question whether this will slow the adoption of blockchain technology.

6.-Andreas Antonopoulos: It is a technologist, entrepreneur and engaging speaker, which makes Bitcoin easier to understand for the average citizen. It has been a prolific proponent of cryptocurrencies generally speaking in front of large crowds in numerous technology and security conference worldwide. Antonopoulos is also the author of “Mastering Bitcoin” a technical guide to understanding Bitcoin, and has been a popular guest on the podcast Experience Joe Rogan.También advises many new companies, and even appeared before the Senate of Canada to help assess the best regulatory approach.

5.-Back Adam: It is a pioneer in cryptography and has worked in e-cash protocols since 1995. His inventions include hashcash test work and decentralized functions used in Bitcoin mining. He has been an active member of the Bitcoin community, frequently comments on issues such as scalability, privacy and technology of mining. Today is the CCO Back to Spondoolies Tech Ltd. and President of Blockstream. In February 2016, Blockstream closed a USD $ 55 million Series A financing round to advance its vision and technology, including its working prototype of the side, liquid chain.

4.-Gavin Andresen: It is one of the most prominent and vocalesmiembros of the Bitcoin community has worked directly with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in the development of its source code. He has access to the key that allows you to issue warning messages about the critical issues of the network to all customers Bitcoin.Satoshi Nakamoto handed control source code repository and alert key Andresen before disappearing from the public view.

3.-Hal Finney: Pioneer of Bitcoin, crypto activist, Finney worked as a developer for PGP Corporation until his retirement in 2011. He continued schedule until his death in 2014, however, working on experimental software called bcflick, which uses Trusted Computing to improve safety Bitcoin wallet. It was cryopreserved based on a prior agreement with the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.

2.-Nick Szabo: Is a computer scientist, and cryptographer jurist known for his research on digital and digital currency contracts. He designed a mechanism for a decentralized digital currency called “gold bits” in 1998. However, although this pioneering digital currency did not win much support at the time, which helped spark the advent of Bitcoin ten years later. He is also credited with coining the term “smart contract.”

1.-Satoshi Nakamoto: While there has been much speculation about the real identity behind Bitcoin creator, the pseudonym has been used paraenmascarar the real identity behind Satoshi Nakamoto.Esta person could be a man, woman or even a group of people. We will probably never know the truth.

What is more important, however, is that this technology is not possible to cancel invented. Therefore, even if you believe that Satoshi was a secret CIA program to conduct a global currency for the new world order, it can not be denied that Bitcoin opened the floodgates for decentralized, P2P money (among other applications) not government or central bank is controlled.

Therefore, Satoshi Nakamoto undoubtedly takes number one for the most influential people in Bitcoin, whether he, she or they could really be the place.

Influential industry needs to point the way in technical or regulatory issues, to raise awareness, to dream about new revolutionary solutions to serious global problems and build elegant new companies that take advantage of this exciting emerging technology people.

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