Topic: A Bitcoin Who is Who - page 2. (Read 3223 times)

I will for sure make a couple of sentences for everyone with details. I do want to list "scammers" as when i do read the news i want to have informations on both sides. Imagin you just heard about Bitcoin and start reading about it or see see a tweet with his name mentioned. I think it would be helpful to immediately know that he is the one behind the MtGox fiasco.
I wasn't sure about theymos, but since r/bitcoin and bitcointalk are huge it might be nice to know who is behind it.

How about laszlo? The Bitcoin Pizza guy, isn't he quite important to the history of Bitcoin?

I don't really agree with you, theymos is the moderator but the other staff are not.

I wouldn't consider theymos as someone known in the bitcoin field personally except the fact that he is running bitcointalk, If that's enough for you then you should list the other staff members as well, I'm also against listing scammers like Mark Karpelès, otherwise It's a good list but you should give details about each person.

Everybody in the Bitcoin world knows Satoshi, but many newcomers and not so closely followers might not know all the names in the news stories and posts. Or if they know the name, they might not have the history of them in mind. I think it would help to understand Bitcoin and the more and more involved politics, if we knew the involved peoples history and affiliation.
I would like to make a list with all the better known people involved in Bitcoin and their history with Bitcoin. What do you think? How does this sound?
First i need a list. I started one already. Please add some names and how they where involved in Bitcoin.

My list contains so far:

Satoshi Nakamoto
Hal Finney
Gavin Andresen
Mike Hearn
Adam Back
Greg Maxwell
Roger Ver
Mark Karpelès
Ross Ulbricht
Vitalik Buterin
Craig Steven Wright
Theymos
James D'Angelo
Andreas Antonopoulos

I'll update the post with the new names.

edit:
Laszlo Hanyecz - bought the famous two pizzas for 10 000 BTC
Mike Caldwell - Casascius
Charlie Shrem

Prospects:
Luke Jr

some examples how the short info could look like:

Satoshi Nakamoto
- The name of the person or group that published the Bitcoin Whitepaper (Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System) in October 2008. In Januar 2009 he released the first version of the software and the first Bitcoins were mined.
He then worked on Bitcoin, together with others (but never revealed himself), until summer 2010 when he handed the project over to Gavin Andresen and disappeared shortly after. He remains unknown to this day.

Hal Finney
- He was a developer and active cryptographer that invented a reusable proof of work system in 2004. Its principals are a big cornerstone of Bitcoin. He also was the receiver of the first Bitcoin transaction. He died 2014 due to illness.
 
Mark Karpelès
- In March 2011 he bought a majority (88%) of Mt. Gox, a former exchange for "Magic: The Gathering" cards turned into a Bitcoin exchange. It became the biggest exchange that held for a long time the "all time high" price with $1165.
In February 2014 Mt. Gox closed and filed for bankruptcy. In April Mt. Gox announced that 850 000 Bitcoins were missing and most likely stolen. Later 200 000 Bitcoins have been found. The rest is still missing. Karpelès was arrested August 2015 in Japan for embezzlement and released on bail in July 2016. He is still facing charges.