Top 100 Blockchain and Crypto Influencers on Twitter to Follow
Twitter is a great source of information, especially if you deal with cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies — it helps to stay up to date and have your finger on the pulse of the market not only by reading the news but also by watching the influencers.
The Axon Trade team has compiled a list of Twitter accounts you probably would be interested in following if you work in blockchain & crypto related fields. Of course, there are hundreds of them, but we decided to select the one hundred most popular people in crypto space, based on relevance and the number of followers.
Note: Axon Trade does not endorse any of these sources or endorse any of their opinions, and we encourage you to consume all publicly disseminated information with a few grains of salt.
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Ranked by follower count:
1. John McAfee
Followers: 844000
John McAfee is a British-American computer programmer, businessman, and cryptocurrency enthusiast. Founder of McAfee.
2. Vitalik Buterin
Followers: 814000
Russian-Canadian programmer and writer, primarily known as a co-founder of Ethereum and as a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine.
3. Charlie Lee
Followers: 759000
Cryptocurrency enthusiast and creator of Litecoin. Ex-Director of Engineering at Coinbase and Managing Director of the Litecoin Foundation.
4. Marc Andreessen
Followers: 705000
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. Serves on the board of Facebook, eBay, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Kno, Stanford Hospital, Bump Technologies, Anki, Oculus VR, Dialpad, and TinyCo. A proponent of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
5. Roger Ver
Followers: 552000
Bitcoin Evangelist and Angel Investor. Founding Member and Board Advisor at Bitcoin Foundation. Early investor in such Bitcoin startups as Bitcoin.com, Blockchain.com, Z.cash, BitPay, Kraken, Purse.io.
6. Andreas Antonopoulos
Followers: 452000
Entrepreneur and coder, Bitcoin & open blockchain expert, speaker. Author of Mastering Bitcoin, The Internet of Money, Mastering Ethereum.
7. Erik Voorhees
Followers: 310000
CEO of the instant Bitcoin and altcoin exchange ShapeShift.io.
8. Nick Szabo
Followers: 221000
Computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer known for his research in digital contracts and digital currency. The phrase and concept of “smart contracts” was developed by this guy. Also designed Bit Gold, which many consider the precursor to Bitcoin.
9. CryptoYoda
Followers: 217000
Cryptoenthusiast and technical analyst.
10. Brad Garlinghouse
Followers: 192000
CEO at Ripple.
11. Jameson Lopp
Followers: 178000
Creator of Statoshi and Infrastructure Engineer at Casa. At the moment, he’s most interested in opportunities within the Bitcoin and crypto asset ecosystem.
12. Barry Silbert
Followers: 171000
Founder and CEO at Digital Currency Group, parent of Grayscale, Genesis Global Trading, CoinDesk & investor in 100+ coins, BTC, ETC, ZEC, MANA, ZEN, etc.
13. Tone Vays
Followers: 166000
Derivatives trader, analyst & content creator in the realm of economics, finance, blockchain & Bitcoin. Host of CrytpoScam Podcast.
14. Vinny Lingham
Followers: 164000
CEO of Civic, building global blockchain ID platform. General Partner at Multicoin Capital.
15. Pomp
Followers: 161000
Founder & Partner at Morgan Creek Digital. Writes a daily email newsletter analyzing crypto news for institutional investors.
16. Charlie Shrem
Followers: 155000
Bitcoin pioneer, Founder of The Bitcoin Foundation, Chief Visionary Officer at Crypto.IQ, speaker and writer.
17. Gavin Andresen
Followers: 148000
Software developer best known for his involvement with Bitcoin. In 2012 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.
18. CRYPTO CO฿AIN
Followers: 146000
Crypto trader.
19. Cameron Winklevoss
Followers: 136000
Co-Founder & President at Gemini. Principal at Winklevoss Capital.
20. Mahesh Sashital
Followers: 133000
Entrepreneur and developer, co-founder of Smartereum.
21. Jimmy Song
Followers: 132000
Bitcoin educator, developer and entrepreneur.
22. Simon Cocking
Followers: 119000
Senior editor Irish Tech News, editor in chief at Crypto Coin News.
23. ฿TF%$D!
Followers: 114000
According to his Twitter bio, “semi-retired crypto trader”.
24. Don Tapscott
Followers: 111000
Media theorist. author, adjunct professor, co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute.
25. David Schwartz
Followers: 109000
CTO at Ripple and one of the original architects of the XRP network.
26. Tim Draper
Followers: 105000
American venture capital investor, founder of DFJ Venture Capital, Draper Associates, Draper University, and Innovate Your State.
27. Squeeze
Followers: 104000
Crypto trader, investor and venture capitalist since 2013. Featured in Cointelegraph and HuffPost.
28. Laura Shin
Followers: 101000
Crypto & blockchain journalist. Host of Unchainedpodcast.co & Unconfirmedpodcast.com
29. The Crypto Dog
Followers: 94500
Crypto trader, started mining Bitcoin in 2011, full-time blockchain investor and market commentator.
30. Balaji S. Srinivasan
Followers: 94000
CTO of Coinbase and co-founder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center.
31. Spencer Bogart
Followers: 90300
Partner at Blockchain Capital. Former Bitcoin analyst and VP at Needham & Company.
32. Joseph Young
Followers: 87000
Analyst and investor, focusing on finance, cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech. Contributing to Forbes, Binary District, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate.
33. ฿ITLORD
Followers: 83500
Crypto trader.
34. Giacomo Zucco
Followers: 75400
Supremo at BHB Network and Bitcoin maximalist.
35. Willy Woo
Followers: 75200
Crypto writer. Does some data-driven research on cryptocurrency as an investment and has publications on Forbes, CoinDesk and BraveNewCoin.
36. ParabolicTrav
Followers: 72200
Crypto trader.
37. Emin Gün Sirer
Followers: 71200
Professor at Cornell University, co-director at Initc3.org, system builder. Passionate about Dist Sys, OSes, Blockchains, NoSQL, and Bitcoin.
38. Meltem Demirors
Followers: 70800
Builds products at CoinShares. Teaches at MIT and Oxford University. Investor and advisor.
39. Tiffany Hayden
Followers: 70000
Independent advisor, supporter of Bitcoin, XRP, Codius, Coil and Interledger.
40. DonAlt
Followers: 65900
Teacher, investor and cryptocurrency trader.
41. Michael Fisher
Followers: 65000
Analyst, tech evangelist. Cybersecurity, IoT, Fintech, DataScience & VR influencer at DZone & onalytica.
42. Jon Matonis
Followers: 64400
Monetary economist, Founding Director at Bitcoin Foundation, CEO of Hushmail, Startup Team at RSA’s VeriSign, Chief Currency Dealer at VISA.
43. Stephan Tual
Followers: 63600
Founder of Atlas Neue, former CCO of Ethereum.
44. Parabolic Beastlorion
Followers: 53000
Crypto trader.
45. Jackson Palmer
Followers: 47200
Group Product Manager at Adobe. Created Dogecoin.
46. Bruce Fenton
Followers: 45700
Founder of Atlantic Financial, host of Satoshi Roundtable, Board Member at Bitcoin Foundation.
47. Dr. Craig S Wright
Followers: 45100
Chief Scientist at nChain.
48. Da Hongfei
Followers: 44200
Founder of NEO, CEO at Onchain.
49. Kyle Torpey
Followers: 43300
Full-time Bitcoin writer since 2014. Contributor at Forbes and BitcoinMagazine. Featured on Nasdaq, Business Insider and Motherboard.
50. Tuur Demeester
Followers: 43100
Founder of Adamant Capital.
51. Matt Corallo
Followers: 40000
Bitcoin developer. Full-time on open source Bitcoin projects at Chaincode Labs.
52. slush
Followers: 40000
CEO & IT Architect at SatoshiLabs. Founder of world’s first Bitcoin pool Slush Pool and the first Bitcoin hardware wallet Trezor.
53. Pierre Rochard
Followers: 39000
Software engineer, running Bitcoin Advisory.
54. Francis Pouliot
Followers: 38600
CEO of Satoshi Portal. Blockchain researcher and analyst. Former public policy analyst and free-market economist.
55. Arianna Simpson
Followers: 38400
Venture capitalist. Before she started investing, Arianna was a PM at BitGo, where she was the third employee. Prior to BitGo, she worked at Facebook in Global Marketing Solutions and at Y Combinator-backed Shoptiques, where she ran sales.
56. A v B
Followers: 37900
Canadian crypto expert.
57. Luke Dashjr
Followers: 37400
Bitcoin Core developer, known in the Bitcoin world as Luke-Jr. Founder of Eligius mining pool. He has made over 200 contributions to Bitcoin Core, and maintains the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals section on GitHub.
58. Stefan Thomas
Followers: 35800
Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger and Founder at Coil.
59. Nathaniel Popper
Followers: 34400
Nathaniel writes about technology and finance for New York Times. Author of Digital Gold, a history of Bitcoin.
60. Daniel Larimer
Followers: 33700
Software developer and cryptocurrency serial entrepreneur. Created the cryptocurrency platform BitShares, was a co-founder of the blockchain social platform Steemit, and is CTO of EOS, with the company block.one. Creator of the DPOS consensus algorithm and Graphene technology.
61. Preston Byrne
Followers: 33200
Blockchain technologist, independent consultant, lawyer. Founder and former COO of Monax, a company that created the first open-source permissioned blockchain client in 2014. Advocates for civil liberties, digital rights, due process rights, free markets, and sensible regulation of cryptography.
62. Saifedean Ammous
Followers: 33100
Bitcoin economist. Author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking.
63. The Crypto Monk
Followers: 32100
Crypto trader.
64. Muneeb Ali
Followers: 32100
Blockchain entrepreneur and co-founder of Blockstack, a network for decentralized applications. Princeton Ph.D.
65. Aaron van Wirdum
Followers: 31500
Technical editor at Bitcoin Magazine.
66. Anthony Di Iorio
Followers: 31000
CEO & Founder of Decentral & Jaxx, Co-Founder of Ethereum.
67. Jonas Schnelli
Followers: 30800
Bitcoin Core developer and maintainer, co-founder of Digitalbitbox.com. Author of libbtc. C, C++, Obj-C Pro.
68. Alan Silbert
Followers: 30100
Executive managing director at INX. Bitcoin evangelist. Formerly founder and CEO of BitPremier. 20+ years in commercial banking.
69. Michael Parsons
Followers: 28400
Blockchain & Bitcoin advisor. Chairman at Cardano Foundation.
70. Alex Sunnarborg
Followers: 28200
Founder of Tetras Capital and Lawnmower.
71. Jeremy Gardner
Followers: 25200
Co-founder & Managing Partner at Ausum Ventures. Founded Blockchain Education Network and co-founded SAAVHA.
72. Chris Larsen
Followers: 25100
Co-founder & Executive Chairman of Ripple.
73. Michael Goldstein
Followers: 24500
President of Satoshi Nakamoto Institute and co-host at Noded Bitcoin Podcast.
74. Peter Van Valkenburgh
Followers: 24200
Cryptolawyer, Director of Research at CoinCenter, Board Member at Zcash Foundation, Juris Doctor at NYU Law.
75. Jed McCaleb
Followers: 22700
Co-Founder of Stellar Development Foundation.
76. Alex Van De Sande
Followers: 22100
UX Designer at Ethereum.
77. Nik Bougalis
Followers: 21800
Cryptographer & Software Engineer leading the C++ team at Ripple. Entrepreneur, consultant.
78. Adam Ludwin
Followers: 21400
CEO at Interstellar.
79. Oleg Andreev
Followers: 20200
Protocol architect at Interstellar. Author of Gitbox, CoreBitcoin and BTCRuby.
80. Jill Carlson
Followers: 20000
Cryptocurrency consultant. Jill has done academic research on blockchain and built enterprise products with banks. Right now, she mostly works on cryptocurrency and token projects.
81. Ben Davenport
Followers: 19000
CTO and Co-Founder of BitGo. Previously, Ben co-founded Beluga, which was acquired by Facebook, and became the basis for Facebook Messenger.
82. Jack Mallers
Followers: 17600
Developer and designer. Built ZeroHouseEdge, JacksChess, LanternHQ and RollWithMe. Currently, Jack is crafting consumer experiences at VC-backed startup Label Insight.
83. Dennis Parker
Followers: 17600
Bitcoin maximalist specialized in Bitcoin politics and game theory.
84. CryptoTrooper
Followers: 17300
Crypto trader and technical analyst.
85. Tim Swanson
Followers: 16500
Founder of PostOakLabs. Advisor at clearmatics, BlockSeer, ELM Labs. Formerly Director of Market Research at R3.
86. Alex Bosworth
Followers: 16000
Infrastructure Lead at Lightning.
87. Sergio Demian Lerner
Followers: 14800
Cryptocurrency security consultant.
88. Matthew Roszak
Followers: 14100
Co-Founder at Bloq and Founding Partner at Tally Capital.
89. Caitlin Long
Followers: 12800
Blockchain & Bitcoin enthusiast, chairman & president of Symbiont. 22 years of corporate finance experience (Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Salomon Brothers).
90. Donald McIntyre
Followers: 12800
Founder of Etherplan. Creates articles and videos with research and reviews of the best blockchains, sidechains, and decentralized apps.
91. Daniel “Buddha of Tulips” Jeffries
Followers: 12700
Blockchain & cryptocurrency expert.
92. Alyse Killeen
Followers: 12100
Author, advisor and early blockchain investor. Founding Partner at StillMark Co, Founder and Executive Director of City Fellows Consortium and Women in Venture.
93. Mike Belshe
Followers: 12100
CEO at BitGo, Inventor of SPDY (now HTTP/2.0), Google Chrome engineer, Co-Founder of Lookout Software.
94. Daniel Krawisz
Followers: 11600
Director of Research at Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Writes articles about the economics and technology of Bitcoin.
95. Connie Gallippi
Followers: 11000
Founder and Executive Director at BitGiveOrg.
96. Christian Decker
Followers: 9800
Bitcoin researcher.
97. Min Kim
Followers: 9100
Founder of ICON Project, Council Member at ICON Foundation.
98. Jamie Redman
Followers: 8600
Bitcoin trader and enthusiast, graphic designer and writer/journalist at Bitcoin.com.
99. Lawrence Nahum
Followers: 7800
Bitcoin entrepreneur, open source enthusiast, Founder and CEO at GreenAddress, Senior Architect at Blockstream.
100. Sarah Hody
Followers: 5900
Attorney at Perkins Coie. Advises entrepreneurs, fintech companies, investors, and innovators in the blockchain space. Previously Regulatory Counsel at Coinbase.
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