Most Influential Person in Bitcoin 2014

jonald_fyookball

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Core dev leaves me neg feedback #abuse #political

Quote from: greatwolf_ on December 04, 2014, 10:01:47 PM

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.

greatwolf_

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Andreas Antopoulos

Second vote goes to James D'angelo

Zelek Uther

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Run a Bitcoin node.

Quote from: uvt9 on December 04, 2014, 04:57:57 AM

Quote from: franky1 on December 04, 2014, 03:01:40 AM

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.

johnyj

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Beyond Imagination

Andreas Antopoulos

lontivero

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Amazing times are coming

Quote from: EternalWingsofGod on December 04, 2014, 02:40:21 AM

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)

QuestionAuthority

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You lead and I'll watch you walk away.

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.

raskul

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Quote from: Fabrizio89 on December 04, 2014, 11:55:24 AM

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.

Fabrizio89

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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

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Quote from: avw1982 on December 04, 2014, 11:45:09 AM

Everyone who uses Bitcoin. Kiss

certificates for all!

avw1982

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Everyone who uses Bitcoin. Kiss

Dillar

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Andreas Antonopoulos is a voice of bitcoin

Flashman

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Hodl!

Yup, most positive influence...

Quote from: ChuckBuck on December 04, 2014, 09:57:15 AM

No hesitation. Andreas Antonopolous.

Most negative influence, you know who, split his soul and called it a transaction malleability error, the dark Mark himself, Missssssster Karpeles.

ChuckBuck

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better everyday ♥

No hesitation. Andreas Antonopolous.

-Constantly speaking during meetups and events
-Brings awareness weekly on his podcast and during his 3 appearances on Joe Rogan Experience
-Leaving Bitcoin Foundation "due to lack of transparency" with the scumbags that were onboard like Karpeles and Brock Pierce
-Speaking in front of the Canadian Senate to bring clarity to the technology and currency to politicians that would normally dismiss it
-Started fundraiser for wrongly accused Dorian Nakamoto, putting to bed suspicions that Dorian was the "Satoshi Nakamoto". Raised over 47 BTC in the process for the tough on his luck, life, and health Dorian.
-Involved in various businesses and Bitcoin startups to go along with his continued advisorship to Blockchain.info
-Wrote "Mastering Bitcoin" book and teaches a free digital currency course at University of Nicosia

List goes on and on, but this really is a no brainer.

Snap your fingers and say the first name that comes to mind for Bitcoin and 2014, and it should be Andreas Antonopolous 12 out of 10 times.

neoneros

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I can draw your avatar!

Quote from: raskul on December 04, 2014, 05:57:54 AM

Quote from: neoneros on December 04, 2014, 05:51:44 AM

Make it a Poll and see what happens

that's what the link is doing, no need for a poll here, just click the link in the OP and wait for Coindesk to tell us who wins.

forgot my reading glasses Tongue

but still, would be nice to have a poll beforehand, seeing what might be the outcome?

'You hear that Mr. Andresen?... That is the sound of inevitability'

bitcoinmining

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Gavin Andresen was one of the Bitcoin experts, not just for 2014, he is the second most influential person for me(if we accept the first is Satoshi) in Bitcoin history!

By the way his name is not Gavin Anderson, it's Gavin Andresen guys Wink

raskul

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Quote from: neoneros on December 04, 2014, 05:51:44 AM

Make it a Poll and see what happens

that's what the link is doing, no need for a poll here, just click the link in the OP and wait for Coindesk to tell us who wins.

Aswan

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Mark Karpeles was pretty influencial Tongue

Edit: Meh, someone already mentioned him TT

neoneros

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I can draw your avatar!

Make it a Poll and see what happens

uvt9

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Quote from: franky1 on December 04, 2014, 03:01:40 AM

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.

raskul

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Quote from: Nagle on December 04, 2014, 04:01:31 AM

Mark Karpeles.

was indeed quite influential, but not for any good reasons

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