Your word carries weight. If X-Signs (formerly Twitter) post posts, this can certainly have market-moving consequences. So it’s no wonder that the market is watching like a hawk on the statements of space influencers. But who has the largest following and therefore the greatest influence in the crypto space?
A study by CoinLedgerwhich is available to BTC-ECHO, found exactly that.
Rank 10: Sam Bankman-Fried
The now legally convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) still has a large following. Add up your followers X and Instagram, SBF still has 1.07 million followers. Actually strange: SBF last posted a post on the platform controlled by Elon Musk in January 2023.
9th place: Brian Armstrong
Brian Armstrong is considered an absolute veteran of the crypto space. As early as 2010, he was met at Bitcoin meetups in San Francisco. When Armstrong founded Coinbase in 2011, he launched one of the first Bitcoin exchanges in the world.
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In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, Armstrong deliberately positioned his company in an apolitical manner. Five percent of employees then left the company.
According to data from CoinLedger, Brian Armstrong has a total of 1.2 million followers.
8th place: Barry Silbert
With 1.25 million followers, Barry Silbert is ranked 8th among the most influential crypto influencers. The entrepreneur runs the Digital Currency Group (DCG), one of the most important crypto companies of all. Under its umbrella you can find brands such as BitGo (bitcoin custody), BitPay (crypto payment service provider), Blockstream (bitcoin software developer) and Coindesk (crypto news platform).
In October 2023 we received news that the New York Attorney General’s Office was investigating the DCG. It’s about fraud worth billions of dollars.
7th place: Marc Andreessen
Admittedly: Marc Andreessen is not a classic crypto influencer. As the founder of the venture capitalist Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), he always speaks wisely about utopias and innovations in the tech sector. Last: With this Techno-Optimist Manifesto.
Followers up X: 1.3 million.
Rank 6: Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya is also a venture capitalist. His venture capital firm Social Capital invests in a variety of tech companies with a social focus. Among them: the urban planning tool Urban Footprint. Chamath also regularly comments on cryptocurrencies. With 1.6 million followers on
5th place: Cathie Wood
When Cathie Wood trades securities, it makes headlines. The founder of the investment fund Ark Invest is a strong supporter of cryptocurrencies – and expresses her conviction with a significant investment in Coinbase shares, for example.
Recently, the investor sold large parts of her Coinbase share holdings – for rebalancing reasons.
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Cathie Wood has a team of 1.602 million followers behind her.
4th place: Michael Saylor
Who doesn’t know him? No one else stands for Bitcoin adoption on the corporate side like Michael Saylor, the founder of the business strategy company MicroStrategy.
MicroStrategy can now call 189,150 BTC its own – 0.9 percent of the total BTC supply. Saylor has a whopping 3.2 million followers X.
3rd place: Jack Dorsey
On the winner’s podium is the influencer Jack Dorsey, who only occasionally comments on social media. Nevertheless, the Twitter founder is followed by 6.4 million people. Does he regret selling his platform to the erratic Elon Musk?
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2nd place: Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin is Mister Ethereum. The Canadian-Russian software developer is considered a genius and played a leading role in developing the Ethereum platform in 2013. He is still considered an authority on questions relating to crypto space. Although he previously worked as an editor for Bitcoin Magazine, he doesn’t think much of Bitcoin maximalism. He is even considered to be the inventor of this (negative connotation) term.
Buterin is followed by 7.7 million people across all social media platforms.
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Rank 1: Changpeng Zhao
Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, has shaped the crypto space like no other. The crypto enthusiast has not only built the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world with Binance, but also created an empire. This is now threatening to show its first cracks.
A criminal case is ongoing against CZ; his company Binance.us has already had to stop its activities in the USA in exchange for a record fine.
Still, CZ has 9 million followers across all platforms, according to CoinLedger. 1st place!
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