Who is the single most influential person in Bitcoin?

[franky1]

if you asked 5 years ago i would have said andreas, but he seems to b very core band campy more so then open bitcoin network where any dev has as much chance as any other to offer up the next bugfix/innovation for the network

if h went back to how he told things in the early days he would be more popular in many peoples eyes

these days. 'influencers' dont have a clue. they just promote brands just to get people to buy things

[AlaBy]

Andreas Antonopoulos, one hundred percent! He laid out everything on the shelves before Bitcoin became mainstream. He eventually abandoned his job as a freelance consultant and started speaking at conferences about bitcoin, consulting for startups, and writing articles free of charge.  This is dedication, a matter of respect.

[Shasha80]

Almost everyone agrees that Andreas Antonopoulos is the most influential figure in bitcoin. But I'm an additional person who
making bitcoin increasingly known throughout the world including Vitalik Buterin with his smart mind making breakthroughs
in the world crypto with his creation of ETH which is the strongest altcoins at the moment, John McAfee is also an influential
person with his prediction is quite controversial and lastly Changpeng Zhao founder of Exchanges binance amazed the crypto
world his enthusiasm makes exchanges very popular until now. That's the name of the person who in my opinion is most influential
person in bitcoin.

[pixie85]

if you asked 5 years ago i would have said andreas, but he seems to b very core band campy more so then open bitcoin network where any dev has as much chance as any other to offer up the next bugfix/innovation for the network

if h went back to how he told things in the early days he would be more popular in many peoples eyes

these days. 'influencers' dont have a clue. they just promote brands just to get people to buy things

If there was no Bcash and Bsv Andreas wouldn't need to take sides and be pro core as you call it. I think he's not pro core. He's pro bitcoin. The other things are alts and they are not bitcoin. They are Bcash, Bgold, BcashSV, and the whole other bunch of them. There's Bitcoin and there are altcoins.

They used to say Jihan is the most influential person but that was a long time ago. Some people think Pumpkin Man Craig is influential

[1Referee]

if you asked 5 years ago i would have said andreas, but he seems to b very core band campy more so then open bitcoin network where any dev has as much chance as any other to offer up the next bugfix/innovation for the network

He isn't pro core, he is pro anything that makes sense based on the economical formula presented, which is Bitcoin and Ethereum.

if h went back to how he told things in the early days he would be more popular in many peoples eyes

Look at all the videos on Youtube he is featured in, the ratio between likes and dislikes is generally 99 to 1. I think that's a pretty accurate metric to measure his popularity.

There doesn't seem to be a measurable depth to his knowledge. Combine that with his articulation and there you have the perfect spokes person for Bitcoin and crypto in general.

these days. 'influencers' dont have a clue. they just promote brands just to get people to buy things

It all comes down to supply and demand. If there weren't any noobs to sell garbage to, so called influencers wouldn't be promoting their products/services.

[Chain Clash]

That being said, I'll also nominate me, Danny Hamilton, for your list  (are we allowed to nominate ourselves)?

Nomination accepted. 

[Chain Clash]

Almost everyone agrees that Andreas Antonopoulos is the most influential figure in bitcoin. But I'm an additional person who
making bitcoin increasingly known throughout the world including Vitalik Buterin with his smart mind making breakthroughs
in the world crypto with his creation of ETH which is the strongest altcoins at the moment, John McAfee is also an influential
person with his prediction is quite controversial and lastly Changpeng Zhao founder of Exchanges binance amazed the crypto
world his enthusiasm makes exchanges very popular until now. That's the name of the person who in my opinion is most influential
person in bitcoin.

Yeah, Andreas has come up most. It's funny how few other names get mentioned, after all, and that all of the names (specifically including Andreas) are being debated about. I guess this is a really strong indicator for Bitcoin's decentralized governance, is it?

[Wysi]

Almost everyone agrees that Andreas Antonopoulos is the most influential figure in bitcoin. But I'm an additional person who
making bitcoin increasingly known throughout the world including Vitalik Buterin with his smart mind making breakthroughs
in the world crypto with his creation of ETH which is the strongest altcoins at the moment, John McAfee is also an influential
person with his prediction is quite controversial and lastly Changpeng Zhao founder of Exchanges binance amazed the crypto
world his enthusiasm makes exchanges very popular until now. That's the name of the person who in my opinion is most influential
person in bitcoin.

Yeah, Andreas has come up most. It's funny how few other names get mentioned, after all, and that all of the names (specifically including Andreas) are being debated about. I guess this is a really strong indicator for Bitcoin's decentralized governance, is it?

I don't think any of these names belongs to the list of single most influential person in bitcoin as these people might be just tools as the real person will never reveal his/her identity and always remain anonymous just like Satoshi nakamoto.  Not sure if everyone will agree to my point but from whatever I have learnt in this forum a person who is influential for crypto will always be under radar so they prefer o remain anonymous and use proxies to promote.

[Murat]

For me, Two-person should be considered, Firstly, The name come to my is Andreas Antonopoulos who is just awesome, and working with Bitcoin very effectively and actively, I have seen a lot of lecture of him and it really matters what he is doing, and the second name is Mike Novogratz, who is also a giant person in this platform, I think both of them are working for this platform very well and it's great influence to the people also, Since they are not able to control over this platform but they can influence other people for this platform, but if you choose only one name, then obviously I pick out name of "Andreas Antonopoulos

[gentlemand]

CZ would be my pick. Chinese and English markets know him well.

That's a pretty good pick, but I'd say he's influential over shitcoins and crypto as a whole, not Bitcoin so much.

Witness his suggestion to roll back the Bitcoin chain because Binance lost 7000 BTC or whatever it was. That shows either little to no understanding or overwhelming arrogance. And it also means his worth listening to on this subject has gone down a notch or two.

I'm still not getting the Andreas nominations. He's popular, not influential.

[Lucius]

If you had to choose one real person to represent Bitcoin (in the public or in a debate against other crypto currency representatives), who should it be?

I would not go into some controversy over who should be that person, everyone has their own opinion, though most are for Andreas because he is maybe most popular on YouTube or elsewhere. I have nothing against him, or other people promoting Bitcoin in their own ways, but I think only one person can represent Bitcoin. Although some will say he is not real (in the sense that it is not active in the community), my vote goes to Satoshi Nakamoto.

[KennyR]

CZ would be my pick. Chinese and English markets know him well.

That's a pretty good pick, but I'd say he's influential over shitcoins and crypto as a whole, not Bitcoin so much.

Witness his suggestion to roll back the Bitcoin chain because Binance lost 7000 BTC or whatever it was. That shows either little to no understanding or overwhelming arrogance. And it also means his worth listening to on this subject has gone down a notch or two.

I'm still not getting the Andreas nominations. He's popular, not influential.

Yes, Andreas Antonopoulos is popular through his talks and by the moment most influential seems to be the CEO of Binance. Maybe there are more users who keep hold of large funds, but those are split and kept hold on different wallets. However those people who are influential can't be identified or revealed with perfect data as we cannot get accurate value of one's holdings.

[Chain Clash]

CZ would be my pick. Chinese and English markets know him well.

That's a pretty good pick, but I'd say he's influential over shitcoins and crypto as a whole, not Bitcoin so much.

Witness his suggestion to roll back the Bitcoin chain because Binance lost 7000 BTC or whatever it was. That shows either little to no understanding or overwhelming arrogance. And it also means his worth listening to on this subject has gone down a notch or two.

I'm still not getting the Andreas nominations. He's popular, not influential.

Is there anybody in particular who would come to your mind instead of Andreas?

[tsaroz]

CZ would be my pick. Chinese and English markets know him well.

That's a pretty good pick, but I'd say he's influential over shitcoins and crypto as a whole, not Bitcoin so much.

Witness his suggestion to roll back the Bitcoin chain because Binance lost 7000 BTC or whatever it was. That shows either little to no understanding or overwhelming arrogance. And it also means his worth listening to on this subject has gone down a notch or two.

I'm still not getting the Andreas nominations. He's popular, not influential.

Is there anybody in particular who would come to your mind instead of Andreas?

CZ is a CEO of profit driven company. Bitcoin is an open source project. The development was initially led by satoshi but a large number of developers are involved in bringing bitcoin to where it is. I don't really know their real name but their contributions are greater than most of the newcomers to bitcoin. Without the certainty of monetary value, they worked to develop and mine bitcoin.

[Getmon]

Everybody is like joining the bandwagon in cheering Andreas. Andreas! Andreas! But tell me honestly, how many of you guys saying Andreas is the most influential person in Bitcoin have actually read one of his books? How many videos of Andreas have you actually watched?

The single more influential person in Bitcoin is no other than Satoshi Nakamoto! Alive or dead, real or fake, individual or group, Satoshi is still on top as the most influential person in Bitcoin. 

[Chain Clash]

The single more influential person in Bitcoin is no other than Satoshi Nakamoto! Alive or dead, real or fake, individual or group, Satoshi is still on top as the most influential person in Bitcoin. 

That's absolutely true, the mere debate about what Satoshi might have meant with this or that old post is really fascinating, given that Bitcoin isn't about what its creator wanted but what is actually the most useful for a maximum of people.

I originally posted the question because I wanted to learn who people perceive as the real-world person with the most impact on the future of Bitcoin. It's very subjective, yes, but the fact that there is no consensus (haha!) about this question makes Bitcoin so special.

[Getmon]

The single more influential person in Bitcoin is no other than Satoshi Nakamoto! Alive or dead, real or fake, individual or group, Satoshi is still on top as the most influential person in Bitcoin. 

That's absolutely true, the mere debate about what Satoshi might have meant with this or that old post is really fascinating, given that Bitcoin isn't about what its creator wanted but what is actually the most useful for a maximum of people.

I originally posted the question because I wanted to learn who people perceive as the real-world person with the most impact on the future of Bitcoin. It's very subjective, yes, but the fact that there is no consensus (haha!) about this question makes Bitcoin so special.

Yes, Satoshi Nakamoto remains to be the most influential person/people not just in Bitcoin but also in cryptocurrency as a whole. Imagine a name, which is but a mere pseudonym, that may not even be representing a real person at all, being discussed all over the world. The last words this person/people released were more or less a decade ago and yet they were still discussed and debated until now. Simple words such as "I don't have time" and "I'll have to move on" are still pondered on and studied until now. And even the likes of Andreas, Novogratz, CZ, and the rest are influenced by this name above anything or anybody else.

[target]

The single more influential person in Bitcoin is no other than Satoshi Nakamoto! Alive or dead, real or fake, individual or group, Satoshi is still on top as the most influential person in Bitcoin. 

That's absolutely true, the mere debate about what Satoshi might have meant with this or that old post is really fascinating, given that Bitcoin isn't about what its creator wanted but what is actually the most useful for a maximum of people.

I originally posted the question because I wanted to learn who people perceive as the real-world person with the most impact on the future of Bitcoin. It's very subjective, yes, but the fact that there is no consensus (haha!) about this question makes Bitcoin so special.

Yes, Satoshi Nakamoto remains to be the most influential person/people not just in Bitcoin but also in cryptocurrency as a whole. Imagine a name, which is but a mere pseudonym, that may not even be representing a real person at all, being discussed all over the world. The last words this person/people released were more or less a decade ago and yet they were still discussed and debated until now. Simple words such as "I don't have time" and "I'll have to move on" are still pondered on and studied until now. And even the likes of Andreas, Novogratz, CZ, and the rest are influenced by this name above anything or anybody else.

I only followed few people in crypto was also Novo and Toni Vays podcast which I think are good influential people in crypto that could represent for the community. Toni vays is a finance analyst and knows bitcoin well too. I didn't know Andreas until today but I have listened to his podcast LTB on youtube, if I know he was that popular I could have followed that channel too. I just subscribed right now.

[Chrystora123]

Everybody is like joining the bandwagon in cheering Andreas. Andreas! Andreas! But tell me honestly, how many of you guys saying Andreas is the most influential person in Bitcoin have actually read one of his books? How many videos of Andreas have you actually watched?

Mate.. why do the majority of votes fall to Andreas?  because of the intelligence of his detailed explanation of Bitcoin is very easy to understand.  I totally agree with the majority voice.

The single more influential person in Bitcoin is no other than Satoshi Nakamoto! Alive or dead, real or fake, individual or group, Satoshi is still on top as the most influential person in Bitcoin.  

everybody would say this too if satoshi is physically real.  the problem is.. do you know where satoshi's house is!!

[enhu]

Everybody is like joining the bandwagon in cheering Andreas. Andreas! Andreas! But tell me honestly, how many of you guys saying Andreas is the most influential person in Bitcoin have actually read one of his books? How many videos of Andreas have you actually watched?

Mate.. why do the majority of votes fall to Andreas?  because of the intelligence of his detailed explanation of Bitcoin is very easy to understand.  I totally agree with the majority voice.

The single more influential person in Bitcoin is no other than Satoshi Nakamoto! Alive or dead, real or fake, individual or group, Satoshi is still on top as the most influential person in Bitcoin.  

everybody would say this too if satoshi is physically real.  the problem is.. do you know where satoshi's house is!!

Its because Andreas had already done it in the senate before. He already represented bitcoin community years ago. This is just one of this speech in the senate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNGFZDO8mM

He explained good and can discuss it in all aspects of cryptocurrency and its technology. He should be one of the best person to go to spread the word and educating people.