TOP 10 people who influenced the crypto industry in 2019

Behind every famous person is his personal story, features of his character that have a stronginfluence not only on his behavior in the cryptocurrency world, but also on how this ecosystem “acquires” the qualities of those people who have become leaders in the field of cryptocurrencies.

Jack dorsey

He manages to head the social network Twitter,in which it is also the majority shareholder, as well as the chief executive officer of Square, which through the CashApp application allows you to buy Bitcoin in those countries where it is authorized. Twitter itself in 2019 became the most important social media for the cryptocurrency community, having overtaken BitcoinTalk and Reddit in this status.

Dorsey supported Lightning Labs, launchedcryptocurrency division within Square for the development of the Bitcoin blockchain. In the United States, $150 million was purchased through CashApp in the third quarter of 2019, which corresponds to 8.6% of bitcoins mined during this time. Dorsey is focused on developing the adoption of Bitcoin in emerging economies, particularly in Africa.

Finally, Dorsey intends to deploydecentralized principles of social media, and it will be quite possible to try to make Twitter an important resource for cryptocurrency videos and podcasts, given the difficult situation that has developed in the relationship of the cryptocurrency community with Youtube.

Changpen Zhao

One of the key owners of the Binance crypto exchange,which moved headquartered from Beijing to Malta this year. To date, cryptocurrency exchanges raise a lot of questions, including due to the frequent lack of financial reporting, auditing. Because of this, the words of the head of Binance about the organization itself can be treated only in the “believe - do not believe” mode, and not in the “confirmed data - unconfirmed data” mode.

However, if we talk about Zhao’s remarks inRegarding cryptocurrencies in general, as well as regarding the new Binance services, this puts him in the category of one of the most prominent representatives of the cryptocurrency community.

He launched cryptocurrency staking services,margin trading on digital assets, a platform for launching IEO. In addition, Zhao has an active structure of Binance Research, which is a research unit of the cryptocurrency exchange.

Caitlin long

Well-known Wall Street specialistfinancial risk insurance, in recent years has been working to promote cryptocurrencies in American society. Being currently a resident of Wyoming, in 2019 she was able to create a cryptocurrency expert community in the region, which has become an effective intermediary between society, companies and state authorities.

In summary, the governor of Wyoming as wellstate legislators have approved a number of bills that have come into force and gave the green light to cryptocurrencies. The main point is that we managed to achieve the inclusion of cryptocurrency in the list of financial assets that can be freely purchased and sold, but with which institutional investors can also work.

Wyoming's example began to pay attentionleaders of other states, and even one of the most stringent regulators in the US, the New York Department of Financial Services, decided to adapt its own rules to allow more units of the cryptocurrency business to pass through the “regulatory sieve”.

Meltem Demirors

Participant in a number of cryptocurrency startups, workedthree years at Digital Currency Group, she is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of Coinshares, a company that manages $500 million worth of investments in cryptocurrencies and elements of crypto infrastructure.

Demirors was remembered for her performance in July inThe US Congress, when a meeting of the House Financial Services Committee was held, dedicated to the phenomenon of cryptocurrencies. Before that, she became the most prominent speaker at the Magical Crypto Conference in May, when Demiros symbolically threw some kind of “dubious digital assets” out of the toilet. At the same time, she actively comments on all major events in the cryptocurrency industry, and she herself is personally an investor in the consulting company Messari.

Brian Klein

Has been working in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time,is a partner in the investment company Baker Marquart. A lawyer by training, Klein was named one of the top 5 financial technology lawyers in the United States by Law360 magazine. His clients include Jess Powell's Kraken crypto exchange and Erik Voorhees' Shapeshift trading platform. He also represented Charlie Shrem when he sued the cryptocurrency Winklevoss twin brothers. Defended the Tezos token development team against claims from Breitmans.

One of his impressive legal successes in 2019year was that he managed to reduce all the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims against the EOS project to a fine of $24 million, despite the fact that EOS was able to raise $4.1 billion through an unregistered issue of securities in 2017.

At the end of 2019, he took on a complex case of...defending Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith, who is accused by US authorities of helping North Korea circumvent US sanctions using cryptocurrencies. Griffith faces 20 years in prison, while Klein has already managed to get him transferred from pre-trial detention center to house arrest.

Justin Sun

San managed to expand his fame forthe framework of Tron's own token project. The purchase of BitTorrent has become one of the landmark acquisitions along with the purchase of the Poloniex crypto exchange, which was previously owned by Circle, backed by Goldman Sachs, an American bank. Sun also acquired the Steemit content platform.

In addition, he won the opportunitya charity dinner with billionaire Warren Buffett, a crypto skeptic who compared bitcoin to “rat poison squared.” However, in a mystical way, dinner did not take place, and Sun promises that in the future he will nevertheless sit at the same table with Buffett, expecting that they will be joined by US President Donald Trump.

At the end of the year, San allocated one million dollars insupport from Greta Thunberg, environmental activist from Sweden. Sun does a very important thing that can be taken as an example for every cryptocurrency project: it is worth being active in the media sphere.

The vivid image of Sana even muffled the rumble of critics,who believe that in the development of Tron you can find signs of other cryptocurrency projects. However, Tron is steadily in the top 15 digital assets by capitalization, it is a very liquid token that is traded on a significant number of global crypto exchanges.

Rune Christensen

Christensen cannot often be seen as a commentator inThe media, however, he is an important representative of the development of decentralized finance (DeFi), in the direction of which the MakerDAO project occupies a prominent place, and its native stablecoin Dai has become an important element of DeFi.

DeFi, working in many projects as a “second layer” to the Ethereum blockchain, creates prospects for supporting this digital asset so that it can “hold out” in time for the transition to Ethereum 2.0.

At the same time, DeFi continues to be a directionin the cryptocurrency field, which is only at the very beginning of development, so the MakerDAO project is experiencing development difficulties. At the same time, Christesen plans to follow the path of Satoshi Nakamoto, which is due to the personal characteristics of this person: he does not like publicity.

He also wants to do MakerDAOa truly decentralized project, thereby setting an example to other companies that, perhaps, such an approach will be a way to solve the technical difficulties of cryptocurrency projects.

Behind DeFi itself lies the potential of creating an alternative to institutional companies in the financial services industry.

Ted Livingston

Livingston is known for provingAmerican court that the US authorities are biased towards cryptocurrencies, which is associated with fears that Senator Brad Sherma most openly articulated:

«Cryptocurrencies are something that impacts the dominance of the US dollar in the global economy and could lead to the disappearance of the US currency».

Bitcoin is the main challenge for the sanctions regimeThe United States, which Washington introduces in relation to other states, as well as a number of companies and individuals, thereby not even suspecting that it leads sub-sanctions objects to the idea of using cryptocurrencies in a situation where these objects of sanctions become isolated from the global financial system.

Leavingston even decided to sacrifice prospectsdevelopment of the Kik messenger in order to create a precedent in an American court through the apology of Kin tokens, when all the main suspicions of regulators regarding the United States would be dispelled. Using crowdfunding, he raised funds for such a lawsuit, the outcome of which will have symbolic significance for the entire cryptocurrency industry.

David marcus

Marcus first picked up a small teamspecialists, with the help of which he created the basics of the Libra cryptocurrency. In addition to Marcus, this is Morgan Beller, an employee of Facebook, as well as Kevin Vale, the former head of product development departments on Instagram and Twitter. Marcus, as the former head of PayPal, has managerial skills that allow both influencing small project teams and captivating thousands and even millions of people with his ideas.

David Marcus spoke to the US Congress explainingwhat does the Libra cryptocurrency project mean. In many ways, what he created will manifest itself fully in 2020. The desire to bring full-scale financial services based on blockchain and cryptocurrencies to the social network is a futuristic concept that is being implemented before our eyes and may relate to the creation of a new innovative ecosystem with 2.4 billion users.

Cihan woo

Jihan Wu can be called a leading "opinion leader"not only in the mining industry, but also in the cryptocurrency field in general. In 2019, Wu managed to return to the captaincy of the mining company Bitmain. At the same time, he is launching new projects for cryptocurrency trading in Singapore, the multifunctional cryptocurrency project Matirx.

Wu demonstrates through his activities that inIn the cryptocurrency space, while Bitcoin remains the leading cryptocurrency, there is also room for other digital assets. He was able to accurately predict that the Chinese authorities would weigh their attitude towards Bitcoin mining in the country, taking into account its weight on the state’s economy.

As a result, official Beijing is developing a projectown cryptocurrency, and also negatively refers to other digital assets, however, cryptocurrency mining in the country has become one of the industries that are strategically important.

Wu has long been in the cryptocurrency industry. He was the first translator of Bitcoin's White Paper, and also focuses on the basic principles of the development of the cryptocurrency industry that Satoshi Nakamoto laid down.

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