.

[Snail2]

...and what about the TimeKoin and Qubic devs? I believe a new generation of coins will be based on this two experiments.

[Protagonus]

I would like to just add a name here that has not been mentioned.   He should be an easy tie for 2nd or 3rd place (behind Gavin)

ArtForz
We wouldn't have scrypt anything without him.  (E.G no LTC)  Not to mention various critical bugs solved for BTC.

[teknohog]

I would like to just add a name here that has not been mentioned.   He should be an easy tie for 2nd or 3rd place (behind Gavin)

ArtForz
We wouldn't have scrypt anything without him.  (E.G no LTC)  Not to mention various critical bugs solved for BTC.

Is this the guy who had closed GPU and FPGA miners before the public, opensource ones? Isn't Bitcoin all about open source?

[teknohog]

People seem to talk of Satoshi as one guy when I thought it was really a collective of up to ten.

One Satoshi Nakamoto is easily worth ten mortals, so that's it for the top 10.

[TheBanker]

Id vote for whomever made the Blockchain iPhone app. Seriously, thats a fantastic app and lets me do a lot of BTC work on the road. I think its one of the best apps I've ever used, BTC-related or otherwise.

[BazkieBumpercar]

SunnyKing seems pretty good

[vintagetrex]

vintagetrex, creator of the first and only crypto anarchist corporation: Anarcorp

Seriously tho, that^ guy was doing his own brand of finance with his own theoretical mining networks

[MaGNeT]

iamatrix
JohnCar
JeanCool

Developers of PhenixCoin. Great support and liability.

+1

The best!

[webr3]

You can't have this list without FellowTraveller on it (OpenTransactions, he's done more for BitCoin and crypto than most people put together)

[SaltySpitoon]

If we are just talking coin creators, and not people who have created additional essentials (like Artforz)

I would say Satoshi, Coblee, and Sunny King.

Satoshi invented the original, its obvious why he gets in, Coblee invented the first sucessful scrypt coin, and Sunny King does have a lot of neat innovative projects.

[No_2]

Sunny King definitely gets my vote. As well as being an excellent developer he understand the deeper philosophical aspects of cryptocurrency as exemplified by developments such as proof of stake.