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The Cointelegraph Top 100

Welcome to the first-ever Cointelegraph Top 100. We’re rolling into the new decade by sharing our list of the most important and influential people in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world!

It’s a decidedly community-oriented list and ranking. We decided not to focus on who brought crypto to the mainstream, but rather who has been active in building this space that we all love.

This list is also entirely subjective, decided upon collectively by Cointelegraph’s editors. Someone’s inclusion or ranking also doesn’t necessarily mean they are our favorite people, that we endorse them or that we agree with everything they say. But we acknowledge their importance to the community and to this future that we are all building together.

Our guiding questions are:

  • Who have been the most important people to the crypto and blockchain community in 2019?
  • Who do we expect will be the most important to the development of this industry in 2020?
#1

Changpeng Zhao

CEO of Binance

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#2

David Marcus

Head of Calibra at Facebook

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#3

Kelly Loeffler

Former CEO of Bakkt, U.S. senator for Georgia

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#4

Pavel Durov

Founder and CEO of Telegram

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#5

Vitalik Buterin

Co-founder of Ethereum

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#6

Brian Armstrong

Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase

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#7

Joseph Lubin

Co-founder of Ethereum, founder of ConsenSys

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#8

Elizabeth Stark

CEO of Lightning Labs

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#9

Brad Garlinghouse

CEO of Ripple

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#10

Justin Sun

Founder of Tron, CEO of Bittorrent, Inc.

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#11

Jack Dorsey

Founder and CEO of Twitter and Square

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#12

Michael Novogratz

Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital

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#13

Charlie Lee

Creator of Litecoin, Managing Director at Litecoin Foundation

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#14

Jihan Wu

Co-founder and CEO of Bitmain

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#15

Cameron Winklevoss

Co-founder and president of Gemini, principal of Winklevoss Capital

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#16

Tyler Winklevoss

Co-founder and CEO of Gemini, principal of Winklevoss Capital

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#17

Roger Ver

Executive chairman at Bitcoin.com

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#18

Barry Silbert

Founder and CEO of Grayscale Investments and Digital Currency Group

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#19

Andreas Antonopoulos

Speaker, host of the podcast "Let's Talk Bitcoin"

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#20

Bobby Lee

Founder and CEO of Ballet

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