Our 33 Must-Follow Blockchain & AI Twitter Accounts for #FollowFriday

We’re excited about Twitter (we’re at @EngineeringAI there). Awesome things are happening there. This Friday, we created a shortlist of our favorite #Blockchain, #FinTech and #AI-related tweeps. They’re interesting, informative and funny — we’re fans.

Blockchain & crypto

1. Brian Armstrong at @brian_armstrong. According to their Twitter bio, “Co-founder & CEO at @Coinbase Co-founder @GiveCrypto Building an open financial system for the world. Join us: http://coinbase.com/careers.”
2. Lydia Beyoud at @ElleBeyoud. According to their Twitter bio, “Fintech reporter @BloombergLawLBeyoud[at]http://bloomberglaw.com Priors: telecom, tax beats; investigative fellow @IRWorkshop https://keybase.io/ellebeyoud.”
3. Mary Ellen at @MEIskenderian. According to her Twitter bio, “CEO of @womensworldbnkg. Advocate for women’s and girls’ financial inclusion and economic empowerment. Soul Cycle Enthusiast.”
4. Theodora La uat ‏@psb_dc. According to their Twitter bio, “Unconventional Ventures | #FinTech#InsurTech #startup #AI #IoT #diversity#FemaleFounder #FutureofWork | @LinkedIn Top Voice | @Onalytica №2 FinTech | 13.1.”
5. Naomi Brockwell at @naomibrockwell. According to their Twitter bio, “Film/TV producer, Host of #blockchain / #tech / #bitcoin YouTube show; Dance like nobody’s watching, Encrypt like everyone is. http://Steemit.com/@skycorridors.”
6. Clara Durodie ‏at @Clara_Durodie. According to their Twitter bio, “Chair @CognitiveFin • #Neuroscience, #ArtificialIntelligence + #FinTech • Keynote Speaker • Board Director • Author • U.Oxford • Fine arts patron.”
7. Cleve Mesidor at @cmesi. According to their Twitter bio, “Founder of LOGOS, the first social platform for activists on blockchain. Host of Podcast. Former Obama Presidential Appointee. @cnn alum #BlockchainEvangelist.”
8. Professor Tonya Evans at @IPProfEvans. According to their Twitter bio, “UNH Law Prof (IP, Tech, Estates), Chair, IP & Innovation Online Programming. Former Pro Tennis Player. NU. FCS, Howard Law. Life-long learner | @CryptoSmartEsq.”
9. ‏Olaoluwa Osuntokun at @roasbeef. According to their Twitter bio, “Half-man, half-beef. UCSB Computer Science MS+BS. Chief Bit Flipper at @lightning labs. Bitcoin · Applied Cryptography · Distributed Systems · #golang.”
10. Sergio Demian Lerner at @SDLerner. According to their Twitter bio, “Cryptocurrency Security Consultant.”
11. Ola Doudin at @odoudin. According to their Twitter bio, “Building @BitOasis. Constantly shipping. Views are my own.”
12. YT at @coin_artist. According to their Twitter bio, ‏“#Bitcoin artist turned blockchain game developer. Featured in BBC, Bloomberg, MIT Tech Review, NPR @neondistrictrpg.”
13. Sandra Ro at @srolondon. According to their Twitter bio,‏ “Crypto / tech investor, entrepreneur focusing on financial access for ALL — Blockchain for Good (UWINCorp), CEO @GBBCouncil, former @CMEGroup @MorganStanley.”
14. Pamela Morgan at @pamelawjd. According to their Twitter bio, “Educator. Entrepreneur. Author. Attorney. Inspired by empowering others. Believer in social justice, freedom, and smiling at strangers. https://empoweredlaw.com.”
15. Taylor Monahan at @tayvano. According to their Twitter bio, “Founder & CEO of @MyCrypto.” ‏
16. Susan Poole at @BitCoinSusan. According to their Twitter bio, “Blockchain. Crypto. Co-Chair EU’s Blockchain Forums. Top 10 CryptoWomen 2018. New: THE 1st Crypto & Blockchain Security Event: @HOSHOCON w/Andreas Antonopol.”
17. Bailey Reutzel at @BLR13. According to their Twitter bio, “Keep getting pulled back into #Bitcoin/#blockchain. ;) US Editor/journalist @coindesk + #Moneytripping, another great American roadtrip.”
18. Paige at @ioptio. According to their Twitter bio, “http://z.cash //, crypto, bjj blue belt, math art, motorcycles, asmr.”
19. Lily Liu at @calilyliu. According to their Twitter bio, “ex: Co-Founder @earndotcom, @KKR_Co, @McKinsey, @Stanford, @Harvard. 5 years in China.”

Artificial intelligence

1. Jason Toy at @jtoy. According to their Twitter bio, “I build intelligence models, study cognition, ponder consciousness,polyglot in human & computer languages, & start companies.”
2. OpenAI at @openai. According to their Twitter bio, “OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company, discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence. We’re hiring: http://openai.com/jobs.”
3. Jack Clark at @jackclarkSF. According to their Twitter bio, “@openai & @indexingai Newsletter: http://www.jack-clark.net Past: @business World’s Only Neural Net Reporter. @theregisterDistributed Systems Reporter.”
4. Cade Metx at @CadeMetz. According to their Twitter bio, “New York Times reporter, covering A.I., driverless cars, robotics, and other big changes: cade.metz@nytimes.com. DMs open. DM for private Signal number.”
5. Stephen Merity at @Smerity. According to their Twitter bio, “gcc startup.c -o ./startup. Focused on machine learning & society. Previously @Salesforce Research via @MetaMindIO. @Harvard ’14, @Sydney_Uni ‘11.in SF.”
6. Jeff Dean at @JeffDean. According to their Twitter bio, “Senior Fellow, Google AI. Google Brain team lead and co-founder. Co-designer/implementor of software systems like @TensorFlow, MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner.” ‏
7. Gabriel Synnaeve at @syhw. According to their Twitter bio, “Researcher at Facebook AI Research. Machine learning geek. Interests for language, cognition, games AI..”
8. Oriol Vinyals at @OriolVinyalsML. According to their Twitter bio, “Research Scientist, Machine Learning/Deep Learning/AI, Google DeepMind. Previous: Google Brain.”
9. Pieter Abbeel at @pabbeel. According to their Twitter bio, “Professor at Berkeley, Founder http://covariant.ai and http://gradescope.com.”
10. Mustafa Suleyman at @mustafasuleymn. According to their Twitter bio, “Co-founder DeepMind — Ethical AI.”
11. Demis Hassabis at @demishassabis. According to their Twitter bio, “Founder & CEO DeepMind — developers of #AlphaGo, #AlphaZero & Atari DQN. Working on General AI. Trying to understand what is *really* going on in the universe.” ‏
12. Greg Brockman at @gdb. According to their Twitter bio, “Co-Founder & CTO @OpenAI.”
13. Andrej Karpathy at @karpathy. According to their Twitter bio, “Director of AI at Tesla. Previously a Research Scientist at OpenAI, and CS PhD student at Stanford. I like to train Deep Neural Nets on large datasets.” ‏
14. Andrew Ng at @AndrewYNg. According to their Twitter bio, “Co-Founder of Coursera; Stanford CS adjunct faculty. Former head of Baidu AI Group/Google Brain. #ai#machinelearning, #deeplearning#MOOCs.”