The state of influencers in this space is an absolute joke, people look up to people who manipulate and deceit but yet these "influencers" don't even understand the mechanics of the system they represent? What type of role model is that?
Vitalik is a great influencer, end of. There should be more like him but the harsh reality is who is there past him? Dan Larnier for his ability to ignite and execute ideas sure, for his ability to maintain them certainly not. Then we start climbing down the ladder to people like Satoshi Lee, who is completely out of professional context majority of the time but he/s a technical advocate which is a bonus, but he just can't act in a professional manner (remember his twitter liquidation stunt) but let's not forget his ability to execute is quite poor (LightPay fiasco). Don't get me wrong there was some great accomplishments at his hand, like obtaining of equity of a bank as apart of the Litecoin Foundation and the ability for LTC to implement atomic swaps. Then we start see the true colours of the space as we decent deeper, John Mac Afee and Roger Ver for example I do not need to explain myself for these two enthusiasts and there is vast amount others that follow their same ideologies with their twitter follower count ascending into the high heavens.
There is a large majority of people i'm forgetting to mention as some of them i'm unaware to, why you may ask is this so? It's because i'm busy trying to create my own legacy than rather gloat in others. I only know the above from my initial research into blockchain when I was a trader, I no longer follow that path. We need more people in this space with the technical knowledge as influencers and not people who are just financially healthy and got a wallet full of BTC, but the underlying problem is that the average crypto-currency user isn't comprehending the technical/operational aspect to blockchain but only the potential profit margins. I always say that money distorts logic.
View some influencers here that I didn't mention;
https://cryptoweekly.co/100/