Bitcoin: 5 Twitter Accounts You SHOULD Be Following
Vitalik Buterin @VitalikButerin — also known as the “young genius” of cryptocurrency, as he is way beyond his years sitting in his early 20's. Buterin is the co-founder of decentralized cryptocurrency platform Ethereum. He’s a dual citizen and identifies as both Canadian and Russian. Honoured by Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2017 he is definitely a twitter account you need to be following. In January of 2017, Buterin had about 40,000 Twitter followers. Today, his following is over 520,000.
Charlie Lee @satoshilite — Lee is the creator of Litecoin and was well known as the director of engineering at Coinbase for quite some time. Lee keeps his twitter account active, engaging with followers and staying on top of the hive. He, too, has seen a massive follower growth in 2017 — from under 30K earlier this year to about 558,000 at latest check. He made headlines back in December for announcing he sold and donated his Litecoin stake to avoid conflicts of interest while overseeing the cryptocurrency’s growth.
Roger Ver @rogerkver — an American that resides in Japan, Ver is an early investor in bitcoin projects. He has been a prominent supporter of bitcoin adoption and sees bitcoin as a means to promote economical independence. He now promotes Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of the cryptocurrency created with the intent to fix issues such as high fees and long transaction confirmation times.
Gavin Andresen @gavinandresen — Andresen was one of the lead developers on Bitcoin Core, the original open source software created by Satoshi Nakamoto, and is said to have directly taken over the code maintenance from Nakamoto. In 2012 he founded the Bitcoin Foundation to support and nurture the development of the bitcoin currency, and by 2014 left his software development role to concentrate on his work with the Foundation.
Spencer Bogart aka @CremeDeLaCrypto —Bogart was one of the first Wall Street analysts to switch attention from the stock market to cryptocurrencies. He is currently a partner for an investment fund called Blockchain Capital.
