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Serious question.
This is your opportunity to mention some of the people who have impressed you with their knowledge or skills related to Bitcoin. Even the unpolished gems that don't even realize how good they are :)
I want to subscribe/watch the smartest threads/people here.
Who are they?
Thanks for helping me!

Know nothing, learn everything.

try searching for btcmank.

maybe you'll learn a thing or two.

I would have liked a "+1 to post" feature in this forum: combined with the ability to sort users based on the number of +1 I gave them, that could have automatically created such a list.

I'm brilliant!

The smartest people here don't waste their time with sophomoric conspiracy theories or endless guessing of tomorrows price. They are generally busy making things happen, as opposed to watching things happen then struggling to understand.

I bought ten bitcoins early morning 6/9. Let's see how this works out.

I like DeathandTaxes, cypherdoc, Hal Finney, and a few other people. Smoothie because he never fails to make me smile.

What's bitcoin?

Tradefortress, seems to know what he/she is talking about in most situations. It's a great read when Tradefortress is involved in a thread.

Evoorhees is the brightest one that posts regularly. He will turn a little experiment into a lifetime worth of wealth with little effort. Regardless of the success or failure of Bitcoin, he will still be rich.

Mark Karpellis (MagicalTux) is the smartest one that no longer posts regularly. He turned a stupid trading card business into an empire. His only problem is that he is taking all the exposure. His success will eventually cost him.

The least intelligent player that I can see here is Roger Ver. He already had a thriving tech supply business in Silicon Valley (and others) and has most likely lost more money with Bitcoin than he stands to gain. Obviously a true believer.

Thank you :)

I think another person who is incredibly smart is, Stephen Gornick.

Satoshi Nakamoto

Stephen Gornick always impresses me.  He seems to read an extraordinary amount of material and then recalls every detail when appropriate to the topic being discussed.

Gornick is amazing.  A top notch participant in the ecosystem.

Some guy called BTCurious or something like that always had good stuff, but I've not seen him in a while.

I often find something of interest in 'molecular's writings.  'greyhawk' and I seem to have a similar sense of humor and possibly a similar type of footprint in the ecosystem, so I find a lot of his stuff worth reading.

When Garzik finds the time to post something, I often find it well worth reading.  Same with Maxwell and Todd.  Gavin and Hearn are similarly well written and thoughtful, but I happen to disagree more with their direction for the project.

I'll maybe edit in other names here as I remember them for the fun of it.

I met Stephen last week at a Bitcoin meetup, and I agree that he seems brilliant (though I never run into him here).

He always goes into detail. I learn a lot from nearly every post he submits. One of the reasons I'm so active is because of these people who post interesting content.

Some more people running important projects: (forgive me any mistakes, I'm going off memory).

Mike Hearn       - BitcoinJ/bitcoin-qt
jgarzik               -  bitcoin-qt/bitinstant
JoelKatz             - Ripple
FellowTraveller  - OT
Jan                    - Bitcoin Spinner
davout              - Bitcoin-Central
Casascius         - (Mike Caldwell) Physical Coins
piuk                   - Blockchain.info

also Trace Mayer (one of the guys that does a lot of media interviews) goes by 'sunnaker' on the forum, he's always up to no good  ;)

As the late great Terrence McKenna said: NOBODY IS SMARTER THAN YOU ARE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMNAOk1bMDw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMNAOk1bMDw)

I am one.

fpgaminer.

If you run an FPGA or ASIC miner, chances are you are using his design one way or another. I like to think hardware design is somehow more fundamental than writing software, even if it's not always true ;)

Oh really?

Not necessarily.  Smart people very easily get caught up in silly logic games and arguments.  It takes a bit of wisdom to realize that your time could better be...  oh wait :P

Yeah, the sudden realisation. :D

I just fix shit round here and are a expert of yellow glow.

It's soo...yellow.

Mike Hearn, Marcus of Augustus, fellowtraveler and the OT crew, Mike Gol
the trollie-mollie pile of sockdom - not! I mean you Smoothie! ;)
Lookup  the  Ben Rayfield bot on here and at Kurzweil forums, freaky-smart!

Smartest in bitcoins - Satoshi, Casascius and Luke-Jr

We are all equally smart.  We just have different levels of awareness.

Repentance

This

+1

Lol. Let's +1 the '+1' feature.

If you guys want to talk about that, go to Meta.  It's been talked about a lot already, let's keep the thread on track.


/modhat

There is smart, and there is shrewd.

A smart person can be fooled by a shrewd person - I know which one I would to prefer to have on my side! ;)

A smart person can see the world for what it is, a shrewd person tries to manipulate everything he sees.

the guy that make graph, i don't remember his name, organ something

This.

The smartest people are busy building companies, not posting on page 38 of a random thread.

Yes, you're right. organofcorti is one of the valuable posters.

Thanks for the replies, but let's try to keep this thread on topic. Any more smart people around here that have not been mentioned?

nanotube, of course. And his excellent creation, gribble.

smart and successful and knowledgeable about bitcoin are three different things

I am, of course.

It just occurred to me the newbies will think I'm just randomly posting cat pictures on the forum.

Seems that way to me, or am I being dumb?

Are you implying that you aren't a newbie?

Well of course he knows... why do you think he has PRISM as his avatar?

To educate and spread the news about this terrible invasion of privacy?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.0

I don't think he's been mentioned yet, but pirateat40 was exceedingly smart.

As for people who are still on this forum, I could put in a vote for Dooglus.

Thanks Mod!

Smart but evil.

I've always found deathandtaxes's posts informative and insightful, I wouldnt know if he was the smartest, but he is certainly a major contributor to the collective knoweledgebase these forums house.

My vote is on BKK...
He designed most of the klondike board before the chip specs were even out.....and now he's working on the firmware....

I don't think Dooglus is all that evil.

I was talking about pirateat40

Only one person ever struck me as being really smart on this forum, MBKnight

Not only in building a bitcoin fortune at a sensible time, but in also developing TimeKoin which really seems a far more world ready coin than anything else I've seen in the altcoin archives.

Me..

lol