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Personalities

Personalities

Vol. I · Edition 2026 9 of 844 entries
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Laszlo Hanyecz

Laszlo Hanyecz is immortalized in crypto history as the man who conducted the first real-world transaction using Bitcoin. On May 22, 2010, Hanyecz made what would become one of the most iconic exchanges in digital finance: he paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. This moment, now celebrated annually as Bitcoin Pizza Day, marked the cryptocurrency’s […]

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Joost Jager

Lightning Infrastructure Engineer · Lightning Labs

Lightning Labs
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Jordi Baylina

Technical Lead · Polygon Hermez zkEVM

Polygon Hermez zkEVM
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Jesse Glass

Lead AI Researcher · DecideAI

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John Woods

Chief Technology Officer · Algorand Foundation

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