Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014

[raskul]

Everyone who uses Bitcoin. 

certificates for all!

[Fabrizio89]

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.

[raskul]

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.

[QuestionAuthority]

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.

[lontivero]

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:



That is a plain lie (read the ecb report by yourself here: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes201210en.pdf)

[johnyj]

Andreas Antopoulos

[Zelek Uther]

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 while the real figure is nowhere near that.

Exactly.

It's only 174.9bn per year.

[greatwolf_]

Andreas Antopoulos

Second vote goes to James D'angelo

[jonald_fyookball]

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.