People associated with Bitcoin

President of El Salvador since 2019

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation. As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database. Nakamoto was active in the development of bitcoin until December 2010.

British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)

American founder and administrator of the illicit online marketplace the Silk Road

American software developer (1956-2014)

Entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor

American computer scientist

American investor and businesswoman; CEO of Ark Invest

Terrence Thomas Kevin O'Leary, self stylized as Mr. Wonderful, is a Canadian businessman, television personality and actor. From 2004 to 2014, he appeared on various Canadian television shows, including the business news program The Lang and O'Leary Exchange as well as reality show Dragons' Den. O'Leary hosted Discovery Channel's Project Earth in 2008 and has appeared on Shark Tank, the American version of Dragons' Den, since 2009. He made his feature film debut as Milton Rockwell in Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme (2025).

Australian computer scientist and businessman

British cryptographer

American business executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist (born 1965)

British-Iranian anarchist revolutionary, hacktivist, and programmer

software developer

American business executive and investor

American entrepreneur

American weapons developer (1988-)

American writer

American computer scientist

American businessman

British-Greek Bitcoin advocate

former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox

Singapore entrepreneur

American magazine editor

Canadian soccer player

Russian computer expert

Salvadoran businessman, politician, and economist

Chinese fraudster