Weekly: The most influential people in crypto every beginner should know [ChangeNOW’s Blog]

 Happy  Tuesday, crypto people! As always, we all know that the world of  cryptocurrency, as any other space, has its own celebrities. The people  we will be talking about in this article have left the most noticeable  trace in crypto history. Of course, this list can not be called  complete, but the figures mentioned in here are the ones truly every  beginner needs to know — that’s why we have decided to make this a  series of weekly articles, telling you about 5 famous crypto people  every week! Here’s another 5 people worth knowing about.

Craig Wright
This  Australian businessman and computer scientist is known for being the  Chief Scientist on nChain (startup focusing on transaction conducting)  and claiming that he is the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Also, Wright is the  founder of DeMorgan INC cryptocurrency. Even those who have not heard  anything about Craig Wright before became acquainted with this  entrepreneur after the Bitcoin Cash hard fork and the still-ongoing  ideological war with Roger Ver. Wright claims that BCH needs to become  closer to its roots and come back to Satoshi’s ideas on crypto.

Jackson Palmer
Jackson  is mainly famous for being Dogecoin creator. His cryptocurrency started  off as a joke, but suddenly rocketed and gained a capitalisation of  $1B+. Dogecoin is accepted in major cryptocurrency exchanges (including  ChangeNOW) and is widely used for trading. Now, Palmer is a Group  Product Manager for Adobe cloud products. Besides that, Jackson manages  to find some spare time to run a popular YouTube channel with  cryptoanalysis.

Jon Matonis
Jon  is known as a Bitcoin researcher and economist. Currently, he is the  Founding Director as well as co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation.  Matonis is also the chairman of Globitex — an exchange for Bitcoin and  its derivatives. However, Jon’s regalia list does not end on this — Mr.  Matonis is, above all that, a Board Member at First Global Credit  (cryptocurrency investment and advisory company based in Geneva,  Switzerland).

Joey Zhou
Mostly,  Zhou is famous as an active angel investor for startups and an advisor  for entrepreneurship beginners. In the crypto community, Joey is  appreciated as a person who wrote the first node implementation of  Ethereum and made major contributions to the development of geth,  go-ethereum and cpp-ethereum protocols. Currently, Joey Zhou is a  managing partner at Cyborgenic, a consulting firm focusing on fintech  innovations.

Naval Ravikant
Ravikant  is the co-founder and CEO of The AngelList and Bitwise Asset Management  investor. Bitwise Asset Management, is you have not heard of it, is one  of the pioneering cryptocurrency index funds. Also, Naval is providing  advisory services and funds to Blockstack blockchain startup — it has  recently released its very first decentralised browser.