Web3, the next generation of the internet, is an exciting new space creating opportunities for entrepreneurs across various industries. While the field is still somewhat male-dominated, several influe...
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Top 11 most influential women in tech history
Women have made significant contributions to the field of technology throughout history, but their achievements have often been overlooked or undervalued. By highlighting the accomplishments of women ...
The most influential figure in America’s economy earns just $190,000 a year—and he says that’s fair
Perhaps no single individual has more sway over the global economy than Jay Powell. Investors the world over hang on the Federal Reserve chair’s every word and his speeches are parsed for the slightes...
Twelve Most Influential People in Crypto – Cryptopolitan
Cryptocurrency is an innovative and rapidly evolving industry that has captured the attention of people from all walks of life. The decentralized nature of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has...
People In Crypto – Top 50 Most Influential Crypto Personalities In The World
People in Crypto: from Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin to Changpeng Zhao and Barry Silbert, the crypto world is full of famous personalities. Not only investors but many celebrities, artists, industry l...
Elon Musk Accuses Two Influential Firms of Controlling the Stock Market
Elon Musk likes to attack circles of power. It’s as if he’s on a mission. Nothing seems to motivate him more than slapping a revered institution or icon. He seems to be committed to challe...
Binance’s CZ Responds As Poll Ranks Charles Hoskinson As The Most Influential Person In Crypto 2022
– Advertisement – CZ congratulated Charles Hoskinson at the end of a close poll. Binance’s Changpeng Zhao congratulated Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson, as a recent poll named him the most inf...
Oryen Network Presale Reportedly Backed By Influential Fantom And Chainlink Whales
The cryptocurrency market is booming with new projects, and Oryen Network (ORY) is one of them. Recently, the presale for Oryen Network has been gaining traction as it reportedly attracted influential...
Dave Krugman – Most Influential 2022
Erick Calderon, or Snow Fro, is my biggest inspiration on the artist side of this space. This was someone who saw the future way before others did, acted on his convictions, and changed the world. But...
Most Influential Artist: Yosnier
When CoinDesk caught up with Yosnier, a 23-year-old artist based in Tampa, Florida, in November about his image of the embattled FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, he hadn’t started it yet. To be fair, he’d bee...
Ovie Faruq – Most Influential 2022
People may not view him as a “real artist” because he was a finance guy for 10 years, but for OSF that’s the fun part. “I always like to challenge myself.” His “Most Influential” subjects – Terraform ...
FatManTerra & the Collapse of Crypto’s Terra & Luna Projects – Most Influential 2022
But for someone who’s just a dude in his room, as he said in an interview with Fortune, he sure gets the attention of crypto stakeholders. FatManTerra got his start on the Terra Research Forum, a disc...
Rishi Sunak Can Make UK Crypto Dreams Come True – Most Influential 2022
The U.K. Treasury, with Sunak at the helm, ushered in Britain’s post-Brexit financial strategy earlier this year, which includes measures to bring crypto stabilized against sovereign currencies (colle...
Maxine Waters, Patrick McHenry: Stablecoin Issuers Watching Their Next Moves – Most Influential 2022
The two most important members of the U.S. House of Representatives committee that oversees much of the financial system almost pulled off a miracle: Writing a bill to establish the first real federal...
Mu Changchun Leads the China Team Winning the Global CBDC Race – Most Influential 2022
In such an atmosphere, determining who to credit for China’s CBDC development can be difficult because of the nation’s famously opaque government. However, there is Mu Changchun, who has worked as the...
Chandler Guo & the Ethereum Proof-of-Work Miners Fight – Most Influential 2022
Calculating the number of miners is next to impossible, but from the 10,287 nodes, or computers, running on the day of the Merge, there were likely hundreds, if not thousands. Guo reminds us that when...
Adam Brotman & Starbucks Web3 Loyalty Program – Most Influential 2022
NFTs “can be a storytelling mechanism because of the metadata you can put in it that can be branded. It can have a rarity curve that gives you all of the surface areas for storytelling and brand build...
FEWOCiOUS Dropped $20M in NFTs – Most Influential 2022
In April, FEWOCiOUS released his “Paint” generative art collection, featuring images of paint drops with a backdrop of the sky. As a part of his effort to build out his “digital universe” called FewoW...
Miladys NFT Community Is the Counterculture to Cancel Culture – Most Influential 2022
If you only look at the stats, Miladys, minted by a mysterious art collective called the Remilia Corporation, don’t seem all that influential. The floor price, or lowest price in the collection of 10,...
Tamara Lich & the Freedom Convoy’s Frozen Crypto Assets – Most Influential 2022
She didn’t act alone, but as one of the more popular figures (if not the most popular) among the protests’ organizers, she became the face of the protest movement. Embittered downtown Ottawa residents...
BowTied Bull Converts Tradfi Toms to Crypto Bros – Most Influential 2022
During the bear market, BTB has charged to the forefront of crypto culture, locking horns with traditional corporate types and drumming up interest in decentralized finance. BowTied Bull now has more ...
Avery Akkineni, Gary Vaynerchuk & Vayner3: Guiding Mainstream Brands Into Web3 – Most Influential 2022
She now leads a team of 60 that’s spread across offices in New York and Miami. Part of the “reinvention” was changing the name of VaynerNFT to Vayner3 (as in Web3), and focusing on a more holistic con...
Carole House Advised the President on a Coordinated Federal Approach to Crypto – Most Influential 2022
Of course, in December 2022 the industry is in a very different place than it was in March, marked by failures, bankruptcies and millions of dollars worth of crypto likely lost by investors. The succe...
Nic Carter Is The Bitcoiner Who Stood Up to Toxicity – Most Influential 2022
By the time Carter, who has almost 350,000 followers on Twitter, founded his venture firm, which has committed hundreds of millions of dollars to funding crypto startups and raised three funds, he had...
Jerome Powell Still Has an Impact on Crypto – Most Influential 2022
For the first half of this year, before the crypto industry took a big hit from the failure of a number of crypto companies, including lender Celsius Network, Three Arrows Capital and most recently, F...
Amir Haleem Has Helium-Filled Dreams of Wireless Networks – Most Influential 2022
Amir Haleem is the CEO and co-founder of Helium Systems, a San Francisco-based wireless network and blockchain company developing a peer-to-peer wireless network. The company is famed for its propriet...
Changpeng Zhao: And Then There Was One – Most Influential 2022
This role of crypto savior is problematic for several reasons. First, it goes against the core ideals of crypto, which is supposed to be trustless, decentralized and resistant to a single point of fai...
Arthur Hayes is Crypto’s Virgil Through the Market Hellscape – Most Influential 2022
Since Hayes’ days as a banker he’s lived a thousand lives. He founded the first bitcoin derivatives exchange in 2014, became crypto’s first African American billionaire, lost vast portions of his weal...
Balaji Srinivasan Puts ‘Network States’ on the Map – Most Influential 2022
Cryptocurrencies, borderless by nature, would power the economies of these countries-to-be. Once prospective citizens know and trust each other – early on, those already in close proximity could hold ...
How Kris Jenner Made The Kardashians Famous, Rich And Insanely Influential
At age 51, she landed her family a reality TV show that would change everything. Fifteen years later, the “momager” still gets a cut of her kids’ 15 businesses and, more recently, is striking out on h...