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Vote for CoinDesk’s Most Influential People in Blockchain 2017
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Developers and Technologists – pick the THREE you feel were most influential in 2017 from this category
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Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger
Richard Gendal Brown, R3
Vitalik Buterin, ethereum
Matt Corallo, ChainCodeLabs
Da Hongfei, Neo
Ethan Hileman, TumbleBit
Tadge Dryja, Lightning Network
Mark Friedenbach, Blockstream
Jeff Garzik, Bloq
Ian Grigg, Block.One
Heiko Hees, Raiden
James Hilliard, BIP 91
Nick Johnson and Alex Van de Sande, ENS
Charlie Lee, Litecoin Foundation
Andrew Miller, IC3/Zcash
Satoshi Nakamoto, whereabouts unknown
Neha Narula, MIT Media Lab
Andrew Poelstra, MimbleWimble
Joseph Poon, Plasma/Lightning
Peter Rizun, Bitcoin Unlimited
Amaury "Deadal Nix" Sechét, Bitcoin Cash
Shaolinfry, UASF creator
Riccardo Spagni, Monero
Paul Storzc, Drivechain/Truthcoin
Nick Szabo
Fabian Vogelsteller, ERC-20
Zooko Wilcox, Zcash
Pieter Wiulle, SegWit
Vlad Zamfir, ethereum
Eric Lombrozo, bitcoin
Luke Dash-Jr, bitcoin
Elizabeth Stark, Lightning Labs
Olaoluwa "Laolu" Osuntokun, Lightning Labs
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Law, Regulation and Public Policy – pick the THREE you feel were most influential in 2017 from this category
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Dr. Aisha Butti Bin Bishr, Smart Dubai Office
Perianne Boring, Chamber of Digital Commerce
Carol Van Cleef, Baker Hostetler
Lael Brainard, Federal Reserve Board
Oliver Bussman, Crypto Valley Association
Jerry Brito & Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center
Jamie Smith, Bitfury Group
Emma Channing, Argon Group
Jay Clayton, Securities and Exchange Commission
Carolyn Wilkins, Bank of Canada
Mario Draghi, European Central Bank
J. Christopher Giancarlo, CFTC
Drew Hinkes, Berger Singerman
Sarah Jane Hughes, Uniform Law Commission
Christine Lagarde, IMF
Thomas Linder, MME
Greg Medcraft, Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Mick Mulvaney, Office of Management and Budget
Patrick Murck, Harvard Berkman Klein Center
Joseph Muscat, Malta Prime Minister
N. Chandrababu Naidu, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh
Jennifer O'Rourke, Illinois Blockchain Initiative
Matt O'Toole, Delaware Bar Association's Corporation Law Council
Park Yong-Jin, Parliament member, South Korea
Ryan Peterson, Central Bank of Aruba
Vladimir Putin, Russian President
Yao Qian, People's Bank of China
Marco Santori, Cooley
Bryan A. Schneider, Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation
Valerie Szczepanik, Securities and Exchange Commission
Andrea Tinianow, Director of Global Delaware
Peteris Zilgalvis, European Commission
Kathryn Haun, Former prosecutor, board of directors (Coinbase)
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Investors, Exchanges and ICOs – pick the THREE you feel were most influential in 2017 from this category
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Juan Benet, Filecoin/IPFS
Fred Ehrsam
Tuur Demeester, Adamant Research
Kathleen & Arthur Breitman, Tezos
Josh Brown, investor
BTC-e (whoever runs it)
Chris Burniske, unnamed hedge fund
Olaf Carlson-Wee & Ryan Zurrer, Polychain Capital
Paul Chou, LedgerX
Marc Cuban, investor
Tristan D'Agosta, Poloniex
Brendan Eich, Brave
Arthur Hayes, BitMEX
Yuzo Kano, bitFlyer
Brian Kelly, BK Capital Management
Daesik Kim, bithumb
Nejc Kodrič, Bitstamp
Li Xiaolai, Press.One
Vinny Lingham, Civic
Ted Livingston, CEO, Kik
Daniel Masters, GABI
William Mougayar, Token Summit
Mike Novogratz, Ex-Fortress
Ari Paul, BlockTower
Naval Ravikant, AngelList
Barry Silbert, Digital Currency Group
Nick Tomaino, 1confirmation/Runa Capital
Iliana Oris Valiente, ColliderX
Albert Wegner & Fred Wilson, USV
Linda Xie, ScalarCapital
Brock Pierce, Blockchain Capital
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Startups, Intrapreneurs and Incumbents – pick the THREE you feel were most influential in 2017 from this category
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Muneeb Ali & Ryan Shea, Blockstack
Brian Armstrong, Coinbase
Gabriel Abed, Bitt
Ajit Tripathi, Pwc
Adam Back & Greg Maxwell, Blockstream
Greg Schvey, Axoni
Sandra Ro, CME Group
Amber Baldet, JPMorgan
Patrick Byrne, Overstock
Wang Chun, F2pool
Meltem Demirors, Digital Currency Group
Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase
Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple
James Gorman, Morgan Stanley
Marley Gray, Microsoft
Abby Johnson, Fidelity
Jack Liao, Bitcoin Gold/LightningAsic
Caitlin Long, Symbiont
Joe Lubin, ConsenSys
Adam Ludwin, Chain
Morgan McKenney, Citi
Rodolfo Novak, Opendime
Yasuhiro Sato, Mizuho
Monica Singer, ConsenSys/Ex-Strate
Peter Smith, Blockchain
Balaji Srinivasan, 21.co/a16z
David Treat, Accenture
Valery Vavilov, Bitfury
Erik Voorhees, ShapeShift
Marie Wieck, IBM
Jihan Wu, Bitmain
Haipo Yang, ViaBTC
Julio Faura, Santander
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Media, Blogosphere and Culture – pick the THREE that you feel were most influential in 2017 from this category
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Neeraj Agrawal, Coin Center
Paris Hilton, ICO promoter
Sheba Jafari, Goldman Sachs analyst
Floyd 'Crypto' Mayweather
Andreas Antonopoulos, author, "Mastering Bitcoin"
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
"Bitcoin Sign Guy"
Bitcoin trolls everywhere (collective honor)
Bitfinex'd, blogger
Preston Byrne, marmot
Carnivores (Saifedean Ammous, Michael Goldstein, et. al.)
Ryan X. Charles, Yours
Lulu Yilun Chen, Bloomberg
Chao Deng, Wall Street Journal
Bruce Fenton, Atlantic Financial
Vinay Gupta, Mattereum
Izabella Kaminska, Financial Times
Jameson Lopp, BitGo/Statoshi
John McAfee, MGT Capital
Samson Mow, Blockstream
Steve Palley, Anderson Kill
Jimmy Song, Bitcoin Tech Talk
Alex Tapscott, author
Evan Van Ness, Week in Ethereum newsletter
Tone Vays, World Crypto Network
Roger Ver, Bitcoin.com
Angela Walch, St. Mary’s University School of Law
Whale Panda, blogger
Joon Ian Wong, Quartz
Laura Shin, Forbes
William Mougayar, Token Summit (Organizer)
Mike in Space, Bitcoin Car Talk
Max Keiser, RT
Thomas Hunt, World Crypto Network
Aaron Van Wirdum, Bitcoin Magazine
Liu Xiao and Wu Yujian, Caixin
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Anyone who was influential in 2017 we forgot to nominate? Comments on this survey? Give us your feedback in the field below.
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