IN THE BEGINNING...... Satoshi Nakamoto

Everyone who has ever indulge in bitcoin have wondered who this mysterious person is. On 31 August 2008 the bitcoin white paper was published followed by code in January 2009. Satoshi used the internet and an email address to publish, maintain and communicate with the early core developers until his exit in May 2011 when he passed on the mantle of core maintainer to Gavin Andresen. If we step back alittle, it is obvious that this process of introducing and exiting without a trace was planned right from the begining. Otherwise there would have been a slip over the 2 years and there would be a trail to follow towards his discovery.

Can this man be the real Satoshi Nakamoto, Report Wired and Gizmodo

Hal Finney (Bitcoin & Me)

Nick Szabo

More likely it is more than 1 person and they would have had previous encounters with digital cash. Previous iteration of digital cash such as Digi Cash, Egold and Liberty dollars have all been shut down by the government. Likely candidates are Nick Szabo and Hal Finney, though Adam Back's hashcash algo was used in the bitcoin code.

EARLY CORE CONTRIBUTORS

Gavin Andresen

Martti Malmi

Amir Taaki

The Bitcoin Foundation's original members included Gavin Andresen, Charlie Shrem, Mark Karpeles, Peter Vessenes, Roger Ver, and Patrick Murck.

THE BITCOIN EVANGELISTS

Roger Ver is widely accliam as the premier evangelist

Roget Ver - AKA Bitcoin Jesus

Andreas Anthonopoulous is widely know to the bitcoin community and have appeared before the Canadian and Austrslian senate to explain Bitcoin.

Andreas Antonopoulos - Bitcoin speaker, promoter, evangelist

Other less know but significant personalities are Trace Mayer, The Winklevoss Twins, Charlie Lee and check out some of these people at San Fransisco Coin Congress.

Bobby Lee : BTCC China

THE BITCOIN WHALES

Wences Casares

Marc Andreessen and Balaji Srinivasan of Andreessen Horowitz

Tim Draper Adam Draper

Tyler and Cameron Winkelvoss

THE FUTURE OF BITCOIN

Early code developer and appointed chief scientist by the bitcoin foundation.

Edward Moy - Former Director US Mint
Joseph Vaughn Perling : Liberty Dollars
Trace Mayer :
Nick Szabo : Bitcoin early code contributor
Craig Wright :