Title: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: raskul on December 04, 2014, 06:36:32 AM http://coinde.sk/1wiIEAG (http://coinde.sk/1wiIEAG)
Coindesk are asking for input from bitcoiners to find out who has been the most influential person in Bitcoin in 2014. My personal opinion is that, that this year specifically, the accolade should be to someone who has striven to put bring most efficient bitcoin mining rigs to market, and allow hobbyists to stay in the game up to this point. Even if staying in the game means whatever small part we still play, we are still here, and we are still interested in bitcoin - and, we are still contributing to the network we worked so hard to raise up from the ground. Aside from the fact that the network was always destined to go large scale, the situation we find ourselves in today has been an unavoidable fate from the very beginning and I have based my own nomination on all of the above points. I've started this thread to discuss all the candidates that might be put forward for this nomination, and why? please discuss. Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: EternalWingsofGod on December 04, 2014, 06:40:21 AM Tough choices
I would say Gavin as usual core developer for the protocol Turr Demester for his interesting speeches And perhaps Andreas Antopoulos although there are quite a few candiates from that Bitcoin Senate Series to choose from Could mention Slush etc. Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: sidhujag on December 04, 2014, 06:44:32 AM D larimer
Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: franky1 on December 04, 2014, 07:01:40 AM andreas
he has helped governments, universities, merchants and average joes understand bitcoin beyond the advertised crap that speculators, mining hobbyists and media usually spout out. he has cleared up many misconceptions and explained the untapped potential that usually gets unspoken. without him many businesses would not have adopted bitcoin. many governments would have tried to rule bitcoin and many users would have not understood bitcoin Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: bornil267645 on December 04, 2014, 07:02:26 AM Gavin Anderson I think.
He spoke out a lot of things this year. Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: onewiseguy on December 04, 2014, 07:04:19 AM say Mr Josh garza with all of his gaw (****) ;D
Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: raskul on December 04, 2014, 07:06:07 AM Andreas Antopoulos is likely going to be a very popular choice here. Perhaps we can research some specific events in the year in which he has been most influential.
I have a day at home today, so i'll see if I can put together some kind of timeline if I get some spare time from the housework 8) Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: franky1 on December 04, 2014, 07:57:25 AM Andreas Antopoulos is likely going to be a very popular choice here. Perhaps we can research some specific events in the year in which he has been most influential. I have a day at home today, so i'll see if I can put together some kind of timeline if I get some spare time from the housework 8) main one of this year was how he easily described bitcoin to the Canadian senate and then proposed they do nothing regulatory Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: Nagle on December 04, 2014, 08:01:31 AM Mark Karpeles.
Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: raskul on December 04, 2014, 08:02:32 AM Mark Karpeles. was indeed quite influential, but not for any good reasons Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: uvt9 on December 04, 2014, 08:57:57 AM andreas he has helped governments, universities, merchants and average joes understand bitcoin beyond the advertised crap that speculators, mining hobbyists and media usually spout out. he has cleared up many misconceptions and explained the untapped potential that usually gets unspoken. without him many businesses would not have adopted bitcoin. many governments would have tried to rule bitcoin and many users would have not understood bitcoin Andreas did good works for Bitcoin, but he occasionally talk BS. For example he claimed worldwide remittance market make a profit of $175bn per year (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2nrf0m/andreas_breaks_down_the_cost_of_international/) while the real figure is nowhere near that. Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: neoneros on December 04, 2014, 09:51:44 AM Make it a Poll and see what happens :)
Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: Aswan on December 04, 2014, 09:57:11 AM Mark Karpeles was pretty influencial :P
Edit: Meh, someone already mentioned him TT Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: raskul on December 04, 2014, 09:57:54 AM Make it a Poll and see what happens :) that's what the link is doing, no need for a poll here, just click the link in the OP and wait for Coindesk to tell us who wins. Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: bitcoinmining on December 04, 2014, 10:19:22 AM Gavin Andresen was one of the Bitcoin experts, not just for 2014, he is the second most influential person for me(if we accept the first is Satoshi) in Bitcoin history!
By the way his name is not Gavin Anderson, it's Gavin Andresen guys ;) Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: neoneros on December 04, 2014, 11:05:19 AM Make it a Poll and see what happens :) that's what the link is doing, no need for a poll here, just click the link in the OP and wait for Coindesk to tell us who wins. forgot my reading glasses :P but still, would be nice to have a poll beforehand, seeing what might be the outcome? 'You hear that Mr. Andresen?... That is the sound of inevitability' :) Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: ChuckBuck on December 04, 2014, 01:57:15 PM No hesitation. Andreas Antonopolous.
-Constantly speaking during meetups and events -Brings awareness weekly on his podcast and during his 3 appearances on Joe Rogan Experience -Leaving Bitcoin Foundation "due to lack of transparency" with the scumbags that were onboard like Karpeles and Brock Pierce -Speaking in front of the Canadian Senate to bring clarity to the technology and currency to politicians that would normally dismiss it -Started fundraiser for wrongly accused Dorian Nakamoto, putting to bed suspicions that Dorian was the "Satoshi Nakamoto". Raised over 47 BTC in the process for the tough on his luck, life, and health Dorian. -Involved in various businesses and Bitcoin startups to go along with his continued advisorship to Blockchain.info -Wrote "Mastering Bitcoin" book and teaches a free digital currency course at University of Nicosia List goes on and on, but this really is a no brainer. Snap your fingers and say the first name that comes to mind for Bitcoin and 2014, and it should be Andreas Antonopolous 12 out of 10 times. Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: Flashman on December 04, 2014, 02:15:55 PM Yup, most positive influence...
No hesitation. Andreas Antonopolous. Most negative influence, you know who, split his soul and called it a transaction malleability error, the dark Mark himself, Missssssster Karpeles. Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: Dillar on December 04, 2014, 02:40:34 PM Andreas Antonopoulos is a voice of bitcoin
Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: avw1982 on December 04, 2014, 03:45:09 PM Everyone who uses Bitcoin. :-*
Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: raskul on December 04, 2014, 03:49:22 PM Everyone who uses Bitcoin. :-* certificates for all! Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: Fabrizio89 on December 04, 2014, 03:55:24 PM Andreas surely is the most known person in the Bitcoin network and his contribution has been amazing. There's this other guy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgo7FCCPuylVk4luP3JAgVw James D'angelo which is participating to many Senates conferences and made great videos about Bitcoin aswell, he definitely has a nice number of followers.
Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: raskul on December 04, 2014, 03:58:37 PM Andreas surely is the most known person in the Bitcoin network and his contribution has been amazing. There's this other guy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgo7FCCPuylVk4luP3JAgVw James D'angelo which is participating to many Senates conferences and made great videos about Bitcoin aswell, he definitely has a nice number of followers. i've watched James' video-casts a few times, all very informative and i think, designed to be targeted to those how are new to bitcoin. He certainly has made some effort in getting the message across. Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: QuestionAuthority on December 04, 2014, 04:08:29 PM Positive is Andreas with his senate presentation. Negative is a toss up between Mark Karpeles and Sonny Vleisides. Karpeles took more money but was short lived in the media. Vleisides only took $20-$50 million but received a longer duration of media coverage. Hard to call.
Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: lontivero on December 04, 2014, 05:19:25 PM Tough choices I would say Gavin as usual core developer for the protocol Turr Demester for his interesting speeches And perhaps Andreas Antopoulos although there are quite a few candiates from that Bitcoin Senate Series to choose from Could mention Slush etc. Mr Demester has some interesting speeches but in some of those he says BS like this one: https://i.imgur.com/GvhTe1b.png That is a plain lie (read the ecb report by yourself here: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes201210en.pdf) Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: johnyj on December 05, 2014, 12:28:46 AM Andreas Antopoulos
Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: Zelek Uther on December 05, 2014, 12:36:10 AM andreas he has helped governments, universities, merchants and average joes understand bitcoin beyond the advertised crap that speculators, mining hobbyists and media usually spout out. he has cleared up many misconceptions and explained the untapped potential that usually gets unspoken. without him many businesses would not have adopted bitcoin. many governments would have tried to rule bitcoin and many users would have not understood bitcoin Andreas did good works for Bitcoin, but he occasionally talk BS. For example he claimed worldwide remittance market make a profit of $175bn per year (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2nrf0m/andreas_breaks_down_the_cost_of_international/) while the real figure is nowhere near that. It's only 174.9bn per year. Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: greatwolf_ on December 05, 2014, 02:01:47 AM Andreas Antopoulos
Second vote goes to James D'angelo Title: Re: Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014 Post by: jonald_fyookball on December 05, 2014, 02:22:40 AM Andreas Antopoulos Second vote goes to James D'angelo James is great, but Andreas is on another level. Also, I really don't care for the politics of environmentalism that James has mixed into a few of his Bitcoin videos. |