It’s a new year, and for those of us in the newsroom who spend far too much time hunting tips, charts and RTs on Finance Twitter TWTR, +7.09% , that means one thing: time to update our annual list of who to follow.

Our 2016 edition was all about the names that might offer a heads-up on market tumult (remember when we were worried about that?!). For 2017, we put together a comprehensive list that, honestly, still stands for 2018. (A full roundup is available in one Twitter list right here.) This year... it’s all about crypto.

But before we dive head-first into the blockchain, we’ve been asking you, our readers, for 2018 nominees and a few of you spotted that we were under-representing accounts covering Asia. Here are a few of your nominees to correct that oversight: Comrade Balding @BaldingsWorld, managing director/chief strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec, and the technical-analysis focused @Sunchartist.

From our newsroom, a few general tips: Author and never-Trumper Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) is an outspoken tweeter on politics with blistering retorts to those who claim their own facts. Check out Bama @Bamabroker if you’re looking for tweets about commodities. Investment advisor Ross Gerber @GerberKawasaki has racked up over 46,000 followers with his market following tweets. ValueWalk (@valuewalk) is a good all-arounder on hedge funds and value investing. And may we recommend WSJ Millennials @WizJourn — it’s as perfect as it sounds.

The 30 essential Crypto Twitter accounts to follow

Now let’s get down to it: 2017 was the year of the cryptocurrency. You know the story: Bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.90% exploded onto the scene this year with a 1,400% yearly gain (and plenty of volatility to go along with it). The total crypto market cap now stands at over $554 billion. Social chatter about the new asset class has blown up, and the followings of notable Crypto Twitter accounts have seen, well, crypto-like, 500%+ gains.

On this topic, EVERYONE has a differing opinion ranging from “fraud” to “the future” — and social media is often the place those opinions get aired and debated. Meanwhile, price moves happen quicker than you can tweet about it. For investors, sorting through the noise (not to mention the ICO pump and dumps) to find signals worth listening to is no easy thing.

Are cryptocurrencies a huge bubble, or just getting going? Is ether the next bitcoin? What’s the ideal crypto portfolio? Whatever your position, we hope these accounts will deliver the analysis and commentary you’re looking for in the year to come. (Who did we miss? Tell us in the comments below.)

VIPs and founders

Vitalik Buterin @VitalikButerin — AKA the “boy genius” of crypto — is a co-founder of decentralized cryptocurrency platform Ethereum. He’s Canadian/Russian and in his early twenties... and if you don’t know who he is it’s probably time to read this or this or this. Named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list. In January of 2017, Buterin had about 40,000 Twitter followers. Today, his following is over 514,000.

(For the story behind that tweet, go here.)

Charlie Lee@satoshilite is the creator of Litecoin and the ex-director of engineering at Coinbase. He’s active on Twitter, keeping up with every turn and hard fork in the road. He, too, has seen a massive follower growth in 2017 — from under 30K earlier this year to about 558,000 at latest check. He made headlines back in December for announcing he sold and donated his Litecoin stake to avoid conflicts of interest while overseeing the cryptocurrency’s growth.

Roger Ver@rogerkver claims to be the world’s first investor in bitcoin startups. He apparently used to be all about bitcoin, and now it’s Bitcoin Cash. Some would call him a little controversial.

Canadian entrepreneur Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph is another Ethereum co-founder, and founder of a blockchain software production studio called ConsenSys.

Barry Silbert@barrysilbert is the founder/CEO of Digital Currency Group and pink-sheet listed Bitcoin Investment Trust GBTC, +1.16% , the world’s first publicly traded bitcoin fund.

Gavin Andresen@gavinandresen was previously lead developer on Bitcoin Core, the original open source software created by Satoshi Nakamoto, and took over maintenance of the code directly from Nakamoto. He’s been called “the man who really built bitcoin,” and has drummed up a fair bit of controversy over the past few years.

His Fortress hedge fund shuttered after heavy losses, but Michael Novogratz @novogratz appears to be trying to reinvent himself as the “king of bitcoin.” If you’re looking for bold, bullish calls... you’ve found your guy. (Though that planned bitcoin hedge fund is no longer in the works, for the time being anyway.)

Andreas Antonopoulos@aantonop has been called a “primary thought-leader and ambassador on bitcoin” by CoinDesk and made their top list of influencers several times over, including a spot at No. 1 in 2014. He literally wrote the book on it (or one of them — “Mastering Bitcoin”) and he’s a frequent crypto conference headliner. His feed often points to explainers and how-tos on his YouTube channel:

Analysts

Alex Sunnarborg@alexsunnarborg, former research analyst at digital asset broker Coinbase is a founding partner at Tetras Capital, a hedge fund that focuses on diversified blockchain, crypto and digital assets. He’s also on CoinDesk’s list of top 10 traders and analysts. He’s good for charts, stats and more.

Spencer Bogart aka @CremeDeLaCrypto also makes that CoinDesk list, and was one of the first Wall Street analysts to focus on cryptocurrencies. He’s now a researcher for investment fund Blockchain Capital, and also shows up on Forbes with some stuff that’s written in layman’s terms.

One more from the CoinDesk list: Willy Woo @woonomic produces “some of the highest-quality and most creative charts in the industry.”

Author and commodity trader Peter Brandt @PeterLBrandt now also trades and offers commentary and charts on bitcoin. Extra points for his informative AMAs on Twitter, like this one.

Ronnie Moas@RonnieMoas, independent analyst and founder at Standpoint Research, is worth following just to see how high the bar is being set for bitcoin right now (He once said it’ll catch up with Apple’s AAPL, +1.57% market cap within five years). He does plenty of research to back up his calls. He’s not just into bitcoin, but you’re going to have to subscribe for that research.

Investors and miners

Wences Casares @wences was called the “Patient Zero for bitcoin in Silicon Valley” by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. He’s more of a retweeter than a tweeter. He’s also garnered some fame over this YouTube video — circa 2014 — that explained how bitcoin would get to a billion users.

Jameson Lopp@lopp is an engineer at blockchain security company BitGo and the author of this tweet that got passed around feverishly as bitcoin was hitting new highs mid-November:

Balaji S. Srinivasan @balajis is the CEO of Earn.com, formerly 21 Inc., a well funded blockchain startup that helps its users make money by creating public profiles for receiving paid messages, or completing small tasks. Like Twitter TWTR, +7.09% , but “you’re not just wasting time, you’re making money,” is how Srinivasan put it anyway (and CoinDesk has a writeup of what it’s all about here). Like most of the folks on this list, he’s got some pretty strong convictions about where this crypto thing is going:

Alvin Lee tweeting @onemanatatime describes himself as a veteran crypto trader and entrepreneur, blogging at Aluna Cyrpto blogspot. For example, in “Top 5 things cryptocurrency traders can learn from poker players,” he talks about how much you should really risk (the answer: a tiny percentage of your overall capital).

BTF%$D@CryptoHustle is a full-time crypto trader. On his website, he offers up a free masterclass on bitcoin. Over on Twitter, he’s got plenty to say on bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, market sentiment and swearword-laced, crypto-style philosophy:

@westcoastbill — Bill Lee is the founding chairman of BitGo and a Silicon Valley angel who has a lot of notable investments — Tesla TSLA, -5.59% , Space X, bitcoin and Coinbase.

@CharlieShrem: first bitcoin felon? Charlie Shrem, entrepreneur and early bitcoin advocate, did jail time for helping a customer get bitcoins to resell on the now-shuttered Silk Road. Shrem dusted himself off and is keeping pretty busy with a hand in all sorts of projects. He has no shortage of fans, with some 65,000 followers.

Linda Xie@ljxie is a Coinbase product manager and a good one to follow for explainers and news on alternate cryptocurrencies. She’s got beginner guides up on Bitcoin Cash, Monero and more, and points her followers to them, along with tips like these:

Blockchain tech

Jihan Wu @JihanWu is co-founder of BITMAIN, which has been called perhaps “the most influential company in the bitcoin economy by virtue of the sheer amount of processing power, or hash rate, that it controls.”

@starkness — Elizabeth Stark is the co-founder of @lightning, a so-called open protocol layer that leverages blockchains and smart contracts to “make cheap, fast, private transactions available to anyone around the world.”

Perianne Boring@PerianneDC is a blockchain advocate and founder and president of the Chamber of Digital Congress, which bills itself as a leading trade association representing blockchain. She’s also out to educate:

Nick Szabo@NickSzabo4 is a highly followed cryptographer and blogger, known as one of the pioneers of blockchain. He’s one to follow on issues of scalability and security.

Adam Back@adam3us, CEO of Blockstream, a big provider of blockchain technologies, and inventor of hashcash, the proof-of-work algorithm used in bitcoin mining. He seems pretty big on educating the public, and, well, his bio may make your head spin.

Commentary

Don’t let the fact that we’ve come this far in the list before getting to WhalePanda @WhalePanda deter you: this is pretty much a must-follow when it comes to crypto.

Chris Burniske@cburniske the author of “Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond” offers a balanced, if bullish, perspective on the crypto space with tweets that tend to be investor-focused and easy to get your head around for the newbies.

Investor and fintech/hard-money analyst Tuur Demeester @TuurDemeester is worth a follow if you’re interested in easy-to-read charts and a greater market perspective:

“Into crypto before it was cool,” is how Arianna Simpson — @AriannaSimpson — describes herself. She’s an early-stage investor in startups and also has held roles at BitGo and Facebook. She doles out all sorts of advice:

Plus a dozen more...

We’ve tried to offer up a curated list above of must-follow accounts that are consistently active, influential, and bring something unique to the table. But there are dozens (hundreds! thousands!) more out there, each offering up something slightly different. Here are a dozen more names, if the 30 we called out above aren’t enough for you.

Blockchain experts and advocates: Neha Narula @neha is the director of digital currency at MIT Media Lab; cryptography consultant Peter Todd @petertoddbtc; Meltem Demirors — @Melt_Dem — is a director at Digital Currency Group; Elizabeth Rossiello @e_rossiello hasn’t tweeted in awhile, but is founder of a blockchain payments startup. Luke Martin @VentureCoinist is one to follow for charts, and you might also add derivatives trader and consultant Tone Vays @ToneVays.

Other crypto big wigs: Fred Ehrsam @FEhrsam, previous Coinbase co-founder; Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong, another Coinbase co-founder and its current CEO; Tony Gallippi @TonyGallippi is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of BitPay. NEO founder Da Hongfei @dahongfei, Jackson Palmer @ummjackson, creator of @dogecoin, could also make your follow list. The Winklevii accounts are nearly all RTs these days, but should you feel the need to follow the first reported bitcoin billionaires, they are @winklevoss and @tylerwinklevoss.

Yes, we undoubtedly missed some good ones. So let us know in the comments section which accounts you think are a must-follow.