The world of cryptocurrency and blockchain has gotten very exciting over the last few months. Bitcoin and Ethereum hit new all time highs, and lesser known cryptocurrencies like Ripple and Litecoin are also doing very well. New millionaires are being made daily from cryptocurrency and blockchain related investments.

As far as Blockchain and Cryptocurrency markets are concerned no one can be called an absolute expert yet. However, there are people who recognized the potential of these disruptive technologies earlier than the others and decided to start exploring them right away.

Some of these people are the core Bitcoin and Ethereum developers, blockchain developers, programmers, coders, cryptographers, entrepreneurs, bloggers, and those sharing information and spreading the word.

Michael Casey
Michael Casey is blockchain and cryptocurrency consultant, speaker, journalist and co-author of “The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order” and “The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything” in association with Paul Vigna.

Pieter Wuille
Pieter Wuille is KU Leuven graduate and former site reliability engineer at Google. Wuille is the one who introduced SegWit (Segregated Witness) soft fork to the Bitcoin system, which helped to solve the blockchain size limitation problem.

Ismail Malik
Ismail Malik is Blockchain researcher and developer, ICO Strategist, University of London alumni. He is on board of ICO CROWD, a UK magazine featuring various initial coin offerings.

Eric Lombrozo
Eric’s background lies in the field of software engineering and system analytics, in which he has over 20 years of experience. He has been contributing to the development of cryptocurrencies by creating various facilities where these payment media can be applied. Back in 2011, he worked on building Bitcoin ATM kiosks and the infrastructure for trading crypto. In 2013 he founded a project named CoinSurge that aimed to provide the point of sale integration services for cryptocurrencies. His current endeavor is Ciphrex Corp., a multi-sig wallet provider and pioneer in developing the decentralized consensus network technology including the peer-to-peer cryptographic transaction processing protocols, networks, and apps.

William Mougayar
For 13 years William Mougayar worked for Hewlett-Packard as Systems Engineer, Sales Specialist, Sales Manager, Marketing Manager, Re-engineering Manager followed by several years of experience working on several technology-oriented projects. Four years ago he got into startup management joining crypto- and blockchain-related projects (OB1, Ethereum Foundation, Virtual Capital Ventures, CoinCenter) as advisor and partner. William shared his expertise in the blockchain technology in his book titled “The Business Blockchain“.

Jeffrey Wilcke
Jeffrey Wilcke is a programmer, co-founder and the lead GO developer at Ethereum Foundation.

Paul Vigna
Paul Vigna is WSJ columnist, blogger and veteran business reporter who became known in the cryptocurrency community for publishing several books about crypto.

Alexander Tapscott
Alex Tapscott is CEO of NextBlock Global, a blockchain investment company based in Toronto, and Founding Member at International Monetary Fund High-Level Advisory FinTech Group in Washington D. C. Together with his father Don Tapscott, Alex wrote the Blockchain Revolution book.

Anthony Di Iorio
Anthony has been investing in cryptocurrencies and blockchain companies since 2012 yielding 2000x returns. Since 2012, Di Iorio was frequent host and speaker at hundreds of tech events. He organized the first Canadian Bitcoin Expo in 2014 at the Metro Toronto Convention Center and DEC_TECH events at MaRS Discovery District. On top of that, Anthony is a lecturer at the University of Nicosia’s Master’s program in Digital Currency, and advisor at MaRS Fintech Cluster, member of the Bitcoin Speakers Bureau for the Bitcoin Foundation and the Satoshi Roundtable.

David G.W. Birch
David is advisor and commentator on digital financial services and the blockchain, public speaker and blogger. Above that, he is one of the founders of Consult Hyperion and author of “Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin”.

Vinay Gupta
Vinay is one of the world’s leading thinkers on infrastructure theory who analyzes the state failure solutions and develops the ways to manage the global system risks attempting to eliminate the poverty, the development, and the environmental crises.

Nicolas Cary
Nicolas Cary is a strong believer in the goodness that the blockchain technology can bring into society. He is a talented businessman and philanthropist who was nicknamed the “European Digital Leader of the Year” in 2015 by ICT Spring. Apart from managing Blockchain.info, the biggest Bitcoin wallet provider, and the blockchain explorer, Nicolas co-founded Sky’s The Limit, a non-profit business initiative supporting the young entrepreneurs.

Ƀrock Pierce
Entrepreneur and venture capitalist, the early investor in Bitcoin and one of the largest investors in the Ethereum crowdsale, Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, co-founder of Blockchain Capital, co-founder and Head of Strategy at Block.one, founding board member of Mastercoin (Omni), and an advisor to Bancor and BitGo. Above that, Brock is the founder of ZAM, one of the world’s largest media properties for gamers; IGE, the pioneer of digital currency in online games.

Joseph Lubin
Joseph Lubin is known as a successful entrepreneur who joined EthSuisse in 2014 as COO and as a founder of a company that develops applications and utilities for the next-generation decentralized web, named ConsenSys.

Jimmy Song
Jimmy Song is the full-stack developer, manager, Bitcoin early adopter, and currently, instructor at Programming Blockchain.

Chris Burniske
Chris has a high-level of expertise in big data, cloud computing, cybersecurity, bitcoin, and the blockchain technology.

Emin Gün Sirer
Emin is an associate professor, blogger, and co-Director, Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts at the Computer Science Department of the Cornell University.

Joey Zhou
Joey Zhou is Engineer, Founder and Angel Investor who wrote the first node implementation of Ethereum, contributed to geth, go-ethereum, cpp-ethereum. At the moment he is managing partner at Cyborgenic.

Jameson Lopp
Jameson Lopp is the Bitcoin Core developer known as the creator of the Statoshi fork.

Fred Ehrsam
Fred Ehrsam is a blogger, public speaker and, for the time being, advisor at Polychain Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund.

Michael Terpin
Michael is widely-known as advisor and investor in technology startups. He runs Transform Group, the blockchain and ICO PR and advisory services company that helped to promote 40 ICOs.

Tone Vays
Tone is blockchain consultant and researcher with the background in finance analytics, who has been contributing to a number of the cryptocurrency- and the blockchain-related projects. Three years ago he launched the website LibertyLifeTrail.com focused on defining the legitimate projects in the Crypto/Blockchain space from scams.

Howard Marks
Howard Marks is entrepreneur focused on content and technology, video and online gaming industries, in particular. He is executive chairman and co-founder at StartEngine and Activision/Blizzard.

Jeff Garzik
Jeff is futurist, author, software engineer, bitcoin core developer, Linux kernel engineer, and cloud computing hacker. He co-founded Bloq and served the projects such as CoinCenter, BitFury, BitPay, Chain, Netki, WayPaver Labs, etc. as developer and advisor.

Stephan Tual
Stephan is blockchain expert in smart contracts, smart property, and their decentralized applications, and blogger with 20 years of enterprise IT experience. He is now working at Slock.it, a project at the intersection of the IoT and blockchain aiming to address security, identity, coordination and the privacy of devices.

Adam Back
Adam is cryptography consultant and hacker who invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work algorithm used for decentralized mining in Bitcoin back in the 1990s. He worked as e-cash consultant at Nokia and Credentica (acquired by Microsoft). Most recently, he has been working as a consultant in Cypherspace Internet Security, as applied cryptographer and Bitcoin consultant. He is also co-founder of Blockstream.

Jon Matonis
Jon Matonis is economist and e-Money researcher focused on expanding the circulation of nonpolitical digital currencies, Jon has joined several companies in the Bitcoin, the Blockchain, mobile payments, and gaming sectors as an independent board director.

Charlie Shrem
Charlie is an entrepreneur, Bitcoin advocate, and evangelist who was sentenced to 2 years in 2014 for commitment to an unlicensed money-transmitting business featured on SilkRoad. He was released in 2016 and joined Jaxx, Changelly, and Decentral soon after.

Barry Silbert
Barry Silbert is known as the founder of Grayscale, the Bitcoin and the Ethereum Investment Trust.

Brian Armstrong
Brian is former team lead at IBM, the former consultant in terms of enterprise risk management at Deloitte & Touche, former software engineer at Airbnb. Currently blogger on Medium, CEO, and co-founder at Coinbase.