Top 21 People in the Bitcoin Universe: From Satoshi to the Treasury Era
Twenty-one million is Bitcoin's hard cap — so it felt right to cap this list at 21 too. Bitcoin's story spans two very different eras: the cypherpunks and early developers who built the protocol with almost no expectation of financial reward, and the current generation of executives turning it into a trillion-dollar corporate asset class. This list covers both, in roughly chronological order — from Bitcoin's mysterious creator through to the people running today's largest public Bitcoin treasuries.
Several of the people below now lead or advise companies that hold Bitcoin directly on their balance sheets. Where that's the case, we've linked to their company's entry on our Bitcoin Treasury Tracker so you can see current holdings.
