Progress

Progress

The project started in July 2021 just for fun and as practice. I returned to it from time to time free evenings, and sometimes not touching it for months (the date on the timelapse isn’t very precise, sorry). The current version is marked as v0.4, which roughly reflects the distance to a first final version. I've been working on it full-time for the past few months, which has led to significant progress and gives me hope to finish it this year.

The project started in July 2021 just for fun and as practice. I returned to it from time to time free evenings, and sometimes not touching it for months (the date on the timelapse isn’t very precise, sorry). The current version is marked as v0.4, which roughly reflects the distance to a first final version. I've been working on it full-time for the past few months, which has led to significant progress and gives me hope to finish it this year.

Designers: How did you create the timelapse from a Figma file?

Current status of the layers

Current status of the layers

Persons

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102 ready out of ~300 capacity

Persons

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102 ready out of ~300 capacity

Events

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Only early events, lots of work to do

Events

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Only early events, lots of work to do

Highs & Lows

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Check, add, update, update...

Highs & Lows

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Check, add, update, update...

Phases

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Awaiting your feedback and additions

Phases

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Awaiting your feedback and additions

Hacks

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Need to revise the categories...

Hacks

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Need to revise the categories...

of Crypto

of Crypto

of Crypto

Whole Story

Whole Story

Whole Story

The

The

The

Timeline

Timeline

Timeline

Grand

Grand

Grand

The

The

The

TL;DR

TL;DR

TL;DR

The Grand Timeline is at the intersection of historical research, storytelling, data visualization, and, due to its size, perhaps art. This massive timeline covers the entire history of Crypto and Web3, starting from the cypherpunks and early cryptography days.

This is a one-man show created by a single designer (hey, I’m Igor @stepahin). There's no company, team or sponsor behind it. The project started three years ago as a side project with no specific goal and turned into something big. It's likely the largest infographic you've ever seen.

The project is now published in a work-in-progress stage to get community feedback, support, determine its future, and make new friends. It's grown big enough to share with you and includes many controversial topics, almost every element and statement can be debated. We have a lot to discuss to make the information balanced and objective.

This page isn't the project itself but a showcase about it. The project lives as a Figma file, and from now on, I'll continue working on it publicly. It's a kind of "open source design." Now you can follow updates in real-time and comment on them.

The Grand Timeline is at the intersection of historical research, storytelling, data visualization, and, due to its size, perhaps art. This massive timeline covers the entire history of Crypto and Web3, starting from the cypherpunks and early cryptography days.

This is a one-man show created by a single designer (hey, I’m Igor @stepahin). There's no company, team or sponsor behind it. The project started three years ago as a side project with no specific goal and turned into something big. It's likely the largest infographic you've ever seen.

The project is now published in a work-in-progress stage to get community feedback, support, determine its future, and make new friends. It's grown big enough to share with you and includes many controversial topics, almost every element and statement can be debated. We have a lot to discuss to make the information balanced and objective.

This page isn't the project itself but a showcase about it. The project lives as a Figma file, and from now on, I'll continue working on it publicly. It's a kind of "open source design." Now you can follow updates in real-time and comment on them.

The Grand Timeline is at the intersection of historical research, storytelling, data visualization, and, due to its size, perhaps art. This massive timeline covers the entire history of Crypto and Web3, starting from the cypherpunks and early cryptography days.

This is a one-man show created by a single designer (hey, I’m Igor @stepahin). There's no company, team or sponsor behind it. The project started three years ago as a side project with no specific goal and turned into something big. It's likely the largest infographic you've ever seen.

The project is now published in a work-in-progress stage to get community feedback, support, determine its future, and make new friends. It's grown big enough to share with you and includes many controversial topics, almost every element and statement can be debated. We have a lot to discuss to make the information balanced and objective.

This page isn't the project itself but a showcase about it. The project lives as a Figma file, and from now on, I'll continue working on it publicly. It's a kind of "open source design." Now you can follow updates in real-time and comment on them.

Events on the timeline are probably the largest and most detailed layer. However, at the moment, it is also the most underdeveloped and empty layer. Currently, there are over 200 events, mainly early ones and mostly about Bitcoin. In the future, I’ll try to cover all areas. There's no special priority for Bitcoin — it just happened to start everything.

When selecting events, I follow three principles, and an event must meet at least one of them: 1) significance to the market; 2) an unbroken chain of events to tell a complete story; 3) something particularly interesting. The timeline has a total capacity, and each element has a fixed font size, so there's a lot of work ahead to set the right priorities. There are far more interesting stories and events than the canvas can accommodate.

People are the main force driving the industry forward. Many remarkable and brilliant individuals have made all of this a reality. There are also bad actors who have made the community and products stronger. I tried to select the most significant figures from my subjective viewpoint, prioritizing creators over investors and engineers over entrepreneurs, but I aimed to represent all roles and fields. Currently, the canvas can fit around 300 people, and I’ll probably revisit the list many times with your help.

Where did these portraits come from? You can probably guess, but let's talk about it in detail below. In the initial version, I just used different styles and quality photos from the internet, which was the bad and weak part that prevented me from publishing the project. Now, everything has changed...

The timeline features price charts for Bitcoin and Ethereum, the main market indicators. I've marked all price highs and lows so you can correlate them with events, which also aligns with the Bull and Bear markets in the Phases layer (though boundaries are debatable). Peaks of The Flippening index are also shown, and more interesting metrics around market cap will be added.

Important, Bitcoin and Ethereum are shown on a relative scale to simplify, as their prices differ by ~18 times, making it impossible to display both charts in detail on an absolute scale. Also early large fluctuations in Bitcoin's price, like before $1,000, are almost invisible due to the scale, despite their market impact (I avoided a logarithmic chart since it's hard to read on such a wide chart without a detailed Y-axis and horizontal grid).

These colorful sausages represent various phases in crypto history. The first two shows Bull and Bear markets, though their boundaries are debatable, I've placed them at price peaks. Interestingly, I couldn’t find anyone who has tried to count and number all Bull and Bear markets.

So, I started the phases from the earliest stage. First were the Cypherpunks, then Satoshi Nakamoto Activity, Early Bitcoin, and the 1st Bull Run. I also marked all the booms when everyone went crazy over something in crypto (and then forgot about it), like ICOs, NFTs, Move To Earn, and Play To Earn. I'm sure I've missed a lot, but that's why I need community feedback.

These markers are quite long, so I designed the typography inside like a wrapping tape, ensuring you can see the names and dates at any point.

This whole project actually started with a small infographic about the biggest hacks, created over four years ago. Expanding it led me into a rabbit hole...

I manually reworked several reports, researches, articles, added my own data, and fixed inaccuracies. The categories are currently simplified to: regular hacks, smart-contract hacks, scams, and white hacks. I might add more detailed categories and the biggest crypto losses due to stupidity later.

The magic of this part is that GPT-4 helped me code the data visualization using D3.js (remember, I’m a designer, not an engineer). The result is a hybrid bubble chart and swarm plot, where circle size represents the amount, the X position is the exact date, and the Y position allows the circles to freely spread out due to force simulation within the chart's height.

People

Events

Highs & Lows

Phases

Hacks

Layers

Discover the Timeline

in Figma

In case this is your first time seeing the Figma:

Sign Up to Leave Comments on the canvas. Press C or the comment icon at the top left. I'll periodically resolve comments (archive, hide), but they'll still be available in the Comment mode sidebar -> Show resolved comments.

Sign Up to Leave Comments on the canvas. Press C or the comment icon at the top left. I'll periodically resolve comments (archive, hide), but they'll still be available in the Comment mode sidebar -> Show resolved comments.

Than Hide Comments if there are too many cluttering the view, you can hide them with ⇧Shift+C or from the View Options menu (25% ▾) at the top right.

Than Hide Comments if there are too many cluttering the view, you can hide them with ⇧Shift+C or from the View Options menu (25% ▾) at the top right.

Hide Cursors on a busy day like in the Louvre, you might be distracted by a swarm of cursors. Hide them by disabling Multiplayer cursors with ⌥+⌘+\ or Alt+Ctrl+\ or from the menu on the top right.

Hide Cursors on a busy day like in the Louvre, you might be distracted by a swarm of cursors. Hide them by disabling Multiplayer cursors with ⌥+⌘+\ or Alt+Ctrl+\ or from the menu on the top right.

Or Send Messages with Cursor Chat if you don't disable cursors, you can chat with disappearing messages. Just press / and type. Press Esc to exit this mode.

Or Send Messages with Cursor Chat if you don't disable cursors, you can chat with disappearing messages. Just press / and type. Press Esc to exit this mode.

Now you're a fully prepped Figma viewer. I hope your computer is less than 5 yo old because the file is pretty heavy. If not, please let it render this.

Mission Why?

Mission Why?

Mission Why?

I'm doing this because I'm incredibly fascinated by how unique and interesting the crypto community is, and the amazing stories happening within it. I want to share and tell these stories. There's truly nothing else like this community around any other technology or field in the world. So, I want to show this beautiful and interesting side to as many people as possible, to attract more wonderful and smart individuals to the crypto space.

I'm doing this because I'm incredibly fascinated by how unique and interesting the crypto community is, and the amazing stories happening within it. I want to share and tell these stories. There's truly nothing else like this community around any other technology or field in the world. So, I want to show this beautiful and interesting side to as many people as possible, to attract more wonderful and smart individuals to the crypto space.

I'm doing this because I'm incredibly fascinated by how unique and interesting the crypto community is, and the amazing stories happening within it. I want to share and tell these stories. There's truly nothing else like this community around any other technology or field in the world. So, I want to show this beautiful and interesting side to as many people as possible, to attract more wonderful and smart individuals to the crypto space.

Portraits

Portraits

A Project

within a Project

A Project

within a Project

I was very frustrated that I had to use crappy photos from the internet for person cards. Different styles, poor quality, low resolution, completely different compositions, messy backgrounds, bw and color, old and new photos. Or another situation where the portraits are perfect, like Vitalik by FORTUNE or CZ by Forbes, but I don't have the rights to use those photos. But what were the options?

Real photoshoots? Photographing all these people was impossible — not just because of the zero budget, but also because some of them are no longer with us, some have aged significantly but appear on the timeline from 30 years ago, some are in prison, some are very private persons and would never agree to participate (after all, I’m not Time magazine), and some are just incredibly busy…

Illustrations? Like Cointelegraph or Forbes. I'm not an illustrator, and hiring one for 100-300 portraits sounds absurd and incredibly expensive for a personal side project and time-consuming with zero wow factor.

Maybe Photoshop retouch and filters? Many media do this when they need a series of portraits, but honestly, I've never seen it look very good. It wouldn’t add any uniqueness or value to the project.

Neural Networks? Okay, now we're talking. In 2021, there was almost nothing useful — just the Prisma app with its filters and some experiments with various StyleGANs, but all of it was pretty weak. In 2022, things got better with DreamBooth for Stable Diffusion, but it was still not good enough, stable, or fast. In 2023, LoRA for SD 1.5 came out, followed by SDXL and later IPAdapter. That's when I built a PC with a 4090 and kept watching the releases. By 2024, more tools and information became available, and I realized IT WAS TIME.

I was very frustrated that I had to use crappy photos from the internet for person cards. Different styles, poor quality, low resolution, completely different compositions, messy backgrounds, bw and color, old and new photos. Or another situation where the portraits are perfect, like Vitalik by FORTUNE or CZ by Forbes, but I don't have the rights to use those photos. But what were the options?

Real photoshoots? Photographing all these people was impossible — not just because of the zero budget, but also because some of them are no longer with us, some have aged significantly but appear on the timeline from 30 years ago, some are in prison, some are very private persons and would never agree to participate (after all, I’m not Time magazine), and some are just incredibly busy…

Illustrations? Like Cointelegraph or Forbes. I'm not an illustrator, and hiring one for 100-300 portraits sounds absurd and incredibly expensive for a personal side project and time-consuming with zero wow factor.

Maybe Photoshop retouch and filters? Many media do this when they need a series of portraits, but honestly, I've never seen it look very good. It wouldn’t add any uniqueness or value to the project.

Neural Networks? Okay, now we're talking. In 2021, there was almost nothing useful — just the Prisma app with its filters and some experiments with various StyleGANs, but all of it was pretty weak. In 2022, things got better with DreamBooth for Stable Diffusion, but it was still not good enough, stable, or fast. In 2023, LoRA for SD 1.5 came out, followed by SDXL and later IPAdapter. That's when I built a PC with a 4090 and kept watching the releases. By 2024, more tools and information became available, and I realized IT WAS TIME.

I was very frustrated that I had to use crappy photos from the internet for person cards. Different styles, poor quality, low resolution, completely different compositions, messy backgrounds, bw and color, old and new photos. Or another situation where the portraits are perfect, like Vitalik by FORTUNE or CZ by Forbes, but I don't have the rights to use those photos. But what were the options?

Real photoshoots? Photographing all these people was impossible — not just because of the zero budget, but also because some of them are no longer with us, some have aged significantly but appear on the timeline from 30 years ago, some are in prison, some are very private persons and would never agree to participate (after all, I’m not Time magazine), and some are just incredibly busy…

Illustrations? Like Cointelegraph or Forbes. I'm not an illustrator, and hiring one for 100-300 portraits sounds absurd and incredibly expensive for a personal side project and time-consuming with zero wow factor.

Maybe Photoshop retouch and filters? Many media do this when they need a series of portraits, but honestly, I've never seen it look very good. It wouldn’t add any uniqueness or value to the project.

Neural Networks? Okay, now we're talking. In 2021, there was almost nothing useful — just the Prisma app with its filters and some experiments with various StyleGANs, but all of it was pretty weak. In 2022, things got better with DreamBooth for Stable Diffusion, but it was still not good enough, stable, or fast. In 2023, LoRA for SD 1.5 came out, followed by SDXL and later IPAdapter. That's when I built a PC with a 4090 and kept watching the releases. By 2024, more tools and information became available, and I realized IT WAS TIME.

No one had ever done it this way before

No one had ever done it this way before

I trained my own LoRA model for portrait styles, inspired by the best photographers who shoot for Esquire, Time, Fortune, Wired, Forbes, Bloomberg, and GQ. So I got 10+ photo styles (lighting, lens, depth of field, retouching and color grading). Then I set up background randomization for each style, and randomized clothing for each person based on what they typically wear in real photos (hello Pavel, hello Casey!). IPAdapter and LoRA ensure the likeness.

It took me about a month to learn SD and ComfyUI and another month to generate 102 portraits. Interestingly, the best results came not from "tuning settings for a long time and generating a few perfect images," but rather from "quickly setting up and generating a ton of images to get one perfect." I would generate around 500-1500 Vitaliks to get one best shot. I called this process "Likeness Mining."

Then came the first selection stage with automatic sorting based on likeness factor to the real photo (thanks to dlib), where I chose 20-100 out of thousands. The second selection stage narrowed it down to the 5-20 portraits per person. Finally, I had to pick the one "perfect photo", ensuring the overall collection was diverse in colors and styles. The good shot would then go through inpainting for problem details, outpainting for the lower part of the portrait, and a final upscale.

The plan was to create 20-40 portraits as a teaser for the project, but I got so carried away that I stopped at 102, including one dog and three anonymous figures with hidden faces.

I trained my own LoRA model for portrait styles, inspired by the best photographers who shoot for Esquire, Time, Fortune, Wired, Forbes, Bloomberg, and GQ. So I got 10+ photo styles (lighting, lens, depth of field, retouching and color grading). Then I set up background randomization for each style, and randomized clothing for each person based on what they typically wear in real photos (hello Pavel, hello Casey!). IPAdapter and LoRA ensure the likeness.

It took me about a month to learn SD and ComfyUI and another month to generate 102 portraits. Interestingly, the best results came not from "tuning settings for a long time and generating a few perfect images," but rather from "quickly setting up and generating a ton of images to get one perfect." I would generate around 500-1500 Vitaliks to get one best shot. I called this process "Likeness Mining."

Then came the first selection stage with automatic sorting based on likeness factor to the real photo (thanks to dlib), where I chose 20-100 out of thousands. The second selection stage narrowed it down to the 5-20 portraits per person. Finally, I had to pick the one "perfect photo", ensuring the overall collection was diverse in colors and styles. The good shot would then go through inpainting for problem details, outpainting for the lower part of the portrait, and a final upscale.

The plan was to create 20-40 portraits as a teaser for the project, but I got so carried away that I stopped at 102, including one dog and three anonymous figures with hidden faces.

I trained my own LoRA model for portrait styles, inspired by the best photographers who shoot for Esquire, Time, Fortune, Wired, Forbes, Bloomberg, and GQ. So I got 10+ photo styles (lighting, lens, depth of field, retouching and color grading). Then I set up background randomization for each style, and randomized clothing for each person based on what they typically wear in real photos (hello Pavel, hello Casey!). IPAdapter and LoRA ensure the likeness.

It took me about a month to learn SD and ComfyUI and another month to generate 102 portraits. Interestingly, the best results came not from "tuning settings for a long time and generating a few perfect images," but rather from "quickly setting up and generating a ton of images to get one perfect." I would generate around 500-1500 Vitaliks to get one best shot. I called this process "Likeness Mining."

Then came the first selection stage with automatic sorting based on likeness factor to the real photo (thanks to dlib), where I chose 20-100 out of thousands. The second selection stage narrowed it down to the 5-20 portraits per person. Finally, I had to pick the one "perfect photo", ensuring the overall collection was diverse in colors and styles. The good shot would then go through inpainting for problem details, outpainting for the lower part of the portrait, and a final upscale.

The plan was to create 20-40 portraits as a teaser for the project, but I got so carried away that I stopped at 102, including one dog and three anonymous figures with hidden faces.

Fun fact: The creator of the best upscaler, SUPIR, which I used, is Stephan Tual, the former CCO of Ethereum from the earliest founding team. He later left the crypto community to focus on AI, ML, and Deep Learning stuff.

There were 134,000

generations made to select

102 final portraits

There were 134,000

generations made to select

102 final portraits

There were 134,000

generations made to select

102 final portraits

* Just to clarify, the images don't show real people — they're products of my imagination and a creative interpretation. Let's say this is the most accurate biopic cast you'll ever see!

* Just to clarify, the images don't show real people — they're products of my imagination and a creative interpretation. Let's say this is the most accurate biopic cast you'll ever see!

Jack Mallers

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David Chaum

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John Gilmore

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John McAfee

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Timothy C. May

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Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin, the lead co-founder of Ethereum, is transforming the blockchain world. At just 19, he launched Ethereum, enabling smart contracts and decentralized apps.

@VitalikButerin

Viktor Radchenko

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Scott Stornetta

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Eric Hughes

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Sam Bankman-Fried

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Phil Zimmermann

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Hal Finney

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Mike Novogratz

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Wei Dai

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Jordan Fish

Jordan Fish, aka Cobie, started as an anonymous Twitter account and now has over 700K followers. As the co-founder of Lido, he’s a major figure in crypto and DeFi. His insights and influence have shaped the web3 landscape.

@cobie

Alex Gluchowski

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Bram Cohen

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Gary Gensler

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Pavel Durov

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Julian Assange

Cypherpunk, programmer, hacker, editor, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks in 2006. Forced to accept Bitcoin donations, possibly prompting Satoshi's disappearance. Imprisoned in London since 2019, fighting US extradition.

Plan B

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Devin Finzer

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Nick Szabo

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Alexey Pertsev

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Sebastien Borget

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Laszlo Hanyecz

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Michael Egorov

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Andre Cronje

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Gavin Andresen

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Casey Rodarmor

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Joseph Lubin

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Emin Gün Sirer

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Ralph Merkle

Pioneer in cryptography, co-inventor of public-key cryptography, developer of Merkle trees, crucial for blockchain. Now a researcher and speaker on cryonics.

Anton Bukov

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Satoshi Nakomoto

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Pacman Tieshun Roquerre

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Nayib Bukele

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Marek Palatinus

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Anthony Pompliano

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Sreeram Kannan

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Mike Hearn

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Hayden Adams

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Kain Warwick

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Gloria Zhao

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Ross Ulbricht

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Konstantin Lomashuk

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Jeff Garzik

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Gavin Wood

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Zooko Wilcox

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Willy Woo

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Stani Kulechov

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Sandeep Nailwal

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Stuart Haber

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Arthur Hayes

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Elon Musk

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Adam Back

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Elizabeth Stark

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Roman Storm

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Martti Malmi

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Michael Saylor

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Dylan Field

Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, the only graphic editor capable of creating The Grand Timeline, is a prominent web3 enthusiast. In 2018, he bought CryptoPunk #7804 and sold it for a record-breaking $7.5M at the start of the NFT boom, making headlines.

@zoink

Mark Karpelès

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Anatoly Yakovenko

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Jack Mallers

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David Chaum

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John Gilmore

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John McAfee

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Timothy C. May

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Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin, the lead co-founder of Ethereum, is transforming the blockchain world. At just 19, he launched Ethereum, enabling smart contracts and decentralized apps.

@VitalikButerin

Viktor Radchenko

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Scott Stornetta

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Eric Hughes

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Sam Bankman-Fried

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Phil Zimmermann

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Hal Finney

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Mike Novogratz

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Wei Dai

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Jordan Fish

Jordan Fish, aka Cobie, started as an anonymous Twitter account and now has over 700K followers. As the co-founder of Lido, he’s a major figure in crypto and DeFi. His insights and influence have shaped the web3 landscape.

@cobie

Alex Gluchowski

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Bram Cohen

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Gary Gensler

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Pavel Durov

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Julian Assange

Cypherpunk, programmer, hacker, editor, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks in 2006. Forced to accept Bitcoin donations, possibly prompting Satoshi's disappearance. Imprisoned in London since 2019, fighting US extradition.

Plan B

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Devin Finzer

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Nick Szabo

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Alexey Pertsev

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Sebastien Borget

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Laszlo Hanyecz

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Michael Egorov

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Andre Cronje

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Gavin Andresen

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Casey Rodarmor

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Joseph Lubin

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Emin Gün Sirer

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Ralph Merkle

Pioneer in cryptography, co-inventor of public-key cryptography, developer of Merkle trees, crucial for blockchain. Now a researcher and speaker on cryonics.

Anton Bukov

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Satoshi Nakomoto

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Pacman Tieshun Roquerre

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Nayib Bukele

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Marek Palatinus

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Anthony Pompliano

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Sreeram Kannan

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Mike Hearn

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Hayden Adams

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Kain Warwick

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Gloria Zhao

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Ross Ulbricht

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Konstantin Lomashuk

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