Bitcoin Industry
by Jason Peery
1. Big believers
1.1. Mike Novogratz (10% of wealth in BTC and ETH)
2. Coins
2.1. Bitcoin
2.2. Ethereum
2.3. Litecoin
2.4. Dash
2.5. Dogecoin
3. Miners
3.1. Antpool (China) - 15%
3.2. BitFury (Georgia country) - 12%
3.3. New node
3.4. BW Pool (China) - 8%
3.5. New node
3.6. BTCC (China) - 7%
3.7. New node
3.8. KNC Miner (Sweden) - 7.5%
3.9. 21 (California) - 3%
3.10. Discus Fish/F2Pool (China) - 12%
4. Companies
5. Individuals
5.1. Nick Szabo (Satoshi)
5.2. Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum founder)
5.3. Barry Silbert (Angel Investor)
5.4. Adam Back (Hascash/Liquid) - got $21MM from Reid Hoffman for Blockstream
5.5. Wences Casares (Xapo) - "Patient zero" for Bitcoin in Silicon Valley. On board of Paypal
5.6. Gavin Andreesen (Coded with Satoshi)
5.7. Bobby Lee (Chinese, Runs BTCC)
5.8. Roger Ver (Bitcoin Jesus)
5.9. Hal Finney (Died 2014)
5.10. Andreas Antonopolous (Evangelist)
5.11. Patrick Byrne (Overstock)
5.12. Blythe Masters (Wall Street gal raised $60MM for Blockchain stuff)
5.13. Elizabeth Rosiello (BitPesa Africa)
5.14. David Rutter, R3 (Blockchain for Banks)
5.15. Brian Armstrong (Coinbase CEO)
5.16. Jesse Powell (founder of Kraken, acquired Coinsetter, won't do business in NY after Bitlicense crazy requirements)
5.17. Peter Wuille (responsible for many proposals & contributions to code)
5.18. Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss (Gemini founders & COIN ETF proponents)
5.19. Tim Draper - huge BTC proponent and has cleaned up in two US Marshalls' auctions including the Silk Road one.
5.20. Ben Lawsky (NY tough regulator Bitlicense guy)
5.21. Mark Karpeles (Notorious Mt Gox CEO)