Personally, I don't like playing favorites with things or people. I prefer having Pantheons... top-shelves... upper echelons.

Also, in the end, we're all Bitcoiners.

That said... I'll bite... The creator of Stacker News is pretty cool 🙂

Honestly, and maybe I've got a soft brain, but it's got to be Saylor for me. As a sort of entrepreneurial character, being both technically brilliant and a charismatic salesman are #goals. He's created some truly priceless and concise explanations of Bitcoin in the David Deutsch sense. I think he's accelerated institutional adoption by a large factor.

There are so many great people in the space though. I'm a huge fan of @jimmysong. He's a technical person I see communicating well from a Bitcoin-as-a-moral-money perspective.

I'm huge fans of galaxy brainers like Breedlove and @dergigi too. @dergigi has a deep kind of Bitcoin wisdom and probably just wisdom generally - which is why I think he's able to be so funny.

All the Lightning Labs and the C-Lightning team are crushing it. I see Gentry around a lot and I really vibe with his POV on Bitcoin/Lightning (another person who is more than just technical - high level "gets it").

I think what Jeremy Rubin is doing with Sapio is going to be yuge. It's very early and tbh I still only half understand it, but my intuition is it will add a ton of utility to Bitcoin.

It's sad that the most "visible" members in Bitcoin are who made my list. I'm sure there are core devs who deserve way more credit. I'm not deep enough on core dev yet to know who my heroes are though.

While I'd be hard pushed to pick out one favourite, as there's simply too many people in the space doing really good work to single out a favourite, but in my top 10 would be Max Keiser, as he's the guy that I first heard talking about Bitcoin, apx 10 years ago.

I watch the Keiser Report on a regular bases. I had my doubts the guy when I first learned about him, but over the years, he's proved himself to me and I now wish I'd taken more notice of what he was saying ten years back, but that was before I learned what he was about.