Later Cypherpunks and Crypto-Anarchists
- Amir Taaki - British-Iranian Anarchist, Created the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal system, Former Bitcoinica employee, Founder of DarkWallet, Former fighter in Rojava, Syria for the Kurdish YPG
- Bram Cohen - Twitter bio: "Creator of BitTorrent. Now doing cryptocurrency stuff"
- Cody Wilson - Post-left Anarchist, Founder of Defence Distributed (which successfully produced designs for a fully 3D printed plastic firearm), Worked with Amir Taaki on DarkWallet as a kind of spokesman/propagandist
- Edward Snowden - Former NSA contractor turned leaker, is clearly inspired by Cypherpunk ideals
- Gregory Maxwell - Bitcoin Core Developer, Blockstream CTO, Controversial figure to the Big Block political faction
- Jacob Appelbaum - Friend of Julian Assange, Former Spokesman for Wikileaks, Privacy activist, Former Tor Developer, Currently embroiled in sexual misconduct allegations
- Luke-jr - Bitcoin Core developer, Blockstream employee, A figure of controversy to the Big Block faction
- Matt Corallo - Bitcoin Core developer, Holds the number 3 spot on the bitcoin/bitcoin contributors list (2018-05-28)
- Moxie Marlinspike (pseudonym) - Cypherpunk, Anarchist, Computer Security Researcher, Founder of Open Whisper Systems and co-author of the Signal Protocol (now also used by WhatsApp), Sailor
- Paul Calder Le Roux - Author of E4M disk-encryption software, Suspected author of TrueCrypt, Former criminal empire boss (in a very Crypto-Anarchist sense), DEA informant, Currently in US Custody
- Peter Todd - Bitcoin Core developer, Researcher, Vocal critic within the cryptocurrency space
- Pieter Wuille - Bitcoin Core Developer, Holds the number 2 spot on the bitcoin/bitcoin contributors list (2018-05-28), Blockstream co-founder
- Ross Ulbricht (Dread Pirate Roberts) - Founder of the Silk Road dark net market, "The Princess Bride" fan, Currently serving life in prison
- Satoshi Nakamoto - Pseudonymous Founder of Bitcoin, May be a person or group, Many people put forward as possible candidates, Very probably the alias of a 90s Cypherpunk
- Wladimir J. van der Laan - Bitcoin Core Developer, Holds the number 1 spot on the bitcoin/bitcoin contributors list (2018-05-28)
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