Topic: Who is your bitcoin hero (excluding Satoshi)? - page 4. (Read 1032 times)

For me, I will give it to all of them that have contributed one way or the other to make and kept this technology moving when most people back then didn't believe in it but they persisted. Looking back at Bitcoin History, all mentioned here made their mark in the space and it will be difficult not to recognize that, and @aoluain  is also right, ^{what about my colleague that was the first person to introduce Bitcoin to me?} They are all Heros in my view.


 

In a lot of cases particularly from pre 2019, friends have been influential in introducing
others to Bitcoin especially as these introductions have proved very good advice.

I want to add "Family" to the list, My Brother ^{who is a serious Bitcoiner} introduced me
to Bitcoin back in December 2016.

He is the unrecognised equivalent to Michael Saylor, if anyone asks him about Bitcoin
they better be prepared to have their ears burned!

_{he had an account here a few years ago but is not active}

I got to know bitcoin from an advertisement on one of the platforms and headed to this forum to find out info about bitcoin itself

same with me, my friend who introduced bitcoin and this forum to me is my hero...

even though "friends" are not in the pool but I still make my friends the people who have contributed greatly to introducing bitcoin to me, besides that theymos and all the moderators who continue to maintain this forum are real heroes who live for bitcoin, thank you all for all of you, especially satoshi.

my hero is a friend who first introduced me to bitcoin, because I believe everyone has their own hero and perception, where as you mentioned is a hero for those who know bitcoin and how many times have you been to a party not to me
but it doesn't rule out that theymos is also my hero because he who gave space here provides a lot of info about bitcoin and other alts

Really I can't say anything for now because I am still learning as it is I do not have any mentor on bitcoin but struggling on my own to learn and know more about it. But if I will select bitcoin Heroes, or Heroins I will say, the first OG or the pioneers are the best to select. If they are still alive, or here in this forum. Although most bitcoin users have their heroes which most of them have already mentioned above. Since you have excluded Satoshi from the hero list I do not know again but I still take him because he brought bitcoin to the world space for everyone to hear and use. It was even in this forum that I heard the name Satoshi. Please don't be offended. Because I was not having the time interested but was having a very small knowledge on Crypto. It was only the name from the seminar. Nothing more, that was where the the whole thing ended.

But if it is in this forum I might have two or 3 persons that are always correcting me, educate me and tell me what to do.

I would say that the people I admire are all the early developers, but also people working on BTC at this period. Also, I wouldn't say there were early investors, but rather people that wanted to be a part of something new and exciting, a disruptive technology, and didn't care about it like today's investors do. Those are the people we need to thank for the distance we traveled with this.

I have already posted here but seeing as no one has mentioned Gavin Andresen yet, I thought his name should be mentioned in this thread. Let's not forget that he ran his own faucet back in 2010 and gave away 5 BTC per claim.

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In 2014, one Bitcointalk user discovered a bug that made it possible to expose private keys for certain addresses. Many of the addresses originated from Blockchain.info. Long story short, he swept the coins from the vulnerable addresses to his own, informed the community, and got in touch with the owners to return their Bitcoin. He didn't want the problem to be discovered by someone with bad intentions. He saved over 870 Bitcoin be transferring them out from vulnerable addresses.

Seeing as Michael Saylor is on the list, I'll back him, I  follow him on Twitter and get
numerous tweets per day from him.

I really admire him, he is a Bitcoiner on another level. He transformed himself from a
critic to pretty much all in.

Really everyone who has been nominated already are truly worthy along with all the Bitcoin
developers.

The heroes of bitcoin are those holders who have tried their best not to deposit to a centralized service since they started to fully support the concept of decentralized bitcoin. To be honest it wasn't easy and it just failed a few times.

I'm just worried about people slowly changing their bitcoin transactions to a "centralized" method because it's too convenient. Surely that's not good, especially if all the bitcoins was mined.

Bitcoin heroes in my eyes are people who put their full trust in Bitcoin up to this moment, no matter whether he is a beginner or a long-timer about Bitcoin, no matter if he holds a large number of bitcoins or only a few Sats. Because for me when that person decides to drop his money in Bitcoin because he believes in taking advantage of it long term then he is still a hero. In every way, my view of the hero is to contribute to adoption even if it's only $1 in Bitcoin.

Michael Saylor is my Hero though, he's not an early investor to Bitcoin BTC but since he got into btc BTC he has been advocating for the success of btc and he consistently buys btc whenever the price falls ( buy the deep), and I also follow suit to buy when I see him buys and he's a man I respect a lot when it comes to doing wise investment and advice.

My former neighboor who bought BTC in 2011 and sold in 2018 

The one who introduced me to BTC is my hero, he is unknown though. I only worked with him on his website and gave me some BTC in 2016. And then  I learn this forum as I search how to use the wallet. Many things comes after it and was here already trying to invest on ICOs. The most noticeable are always going to be the trustworthy and becomes a hero for us.  Without Antonopoulos, I wouldn't really learn how money works and the details about BTC.

Have my Mentor Davinci J15 as my Bitcoin Hero.he's one of the earliest investors that got in even when btc was under $1 and he didn't sell till today, according to him he was being laughed by he's friends whom he advised to buy Bitcoin during that time and how he buys into the ideas of a Ponzi system without knowing the full identity of the creator.

I really believe the most meritorious person besides satoshi introducing bitcoin to me is my own friend and I continue to learn, what is Bitcoin really, and I found this forum bitcointalk which provides better information, until now I am very grateful to have many friends here for sharing information,

Agreed. They are both giants.

Hal worked on cryptocurrency methods before Satoshi, and was the first public supporter and first public transaction.

Martti filled a crucial period. Hal was active until late Jan 2009 and then again nearly two years later, where Martti was active after Apr 2009. Martti helped establish this forum, rewrote parts of the website, learned to code, did debugging and porting, was the first public exchange that we have proof of in late 2009 and then later.

Without either of them, it may never have gotten as much traction.

Martti might be around to speak for himself, but possibly not. I can imagine that he left the community after being burned. It's only a guess from my end. He had an bitcoin exchange where he was using paypal for bitcoin transactions in 2010, and bitcoin was just becoming serious money. Serious enough (pun not intended) to become the targets of scams. Users could have reversed their paypal transactions and cost him money. Between that, wikileaks accepting bitcoin donations, Gavin's CIA visit, and other things, it's a no wonder that he moved away and is reasonably quiet about most of it. I hope that we can one day hear more about what he'd like to say because I'm certain it's very interesting and more in depth than what we've heard so far.

According to what exists online, Sirius - Martti Malmi was one of the first to contact Satoshi and offer his help, which resulted in Bitcoin evolving to what it is today. Just as Hal Finney went down in history as the person to create the first Bitcoin transaction with Satoshi, Malmi went down in history as the first person to make a BTC -> fiat transaction.

I would have a hard time deciding that I have to choose between Hal and Malmi, although most people have great sympathy for Hal Finney who unlike Malmi remained on the forum until his death. Without diminishing Malmi's merits in the very beginning for Bitcoin, I think it's a shame that he distanced himself from the forum he actually created.

Maybe Malmi was a lot more like Satoshi when he decided to move away from Bitcoin, which is somewhat understandable.

It will be sirius. One of the OGs who contributed to bitcoin's development also the first to help satoshi with it, even owned/managed both bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org domain/website, also becomes admin here.
He did a lot without asking anything in return just believed the technology they worked on.

I have corrected that, it's a mistake. Satoshi is the founder of this forum and only him/her/them has/have that unique silver icon.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/satoshi-3

Theymos an admin.