In your personal education journey, who in particular had the greatest impact on your education?
Was it a popular online persona or someone you’re close to?
Funny enough, my father was the one who orange pilled me.
He worked in finance his entire life. Once discovering bitcoin, he taught me 60% of what I needed to know, and I’ve taken it from there since.
Bitcoin serves as a hedge against his own business — he actually hopes that bitcoin puts him out of a job.
Andreas Antonopoulos
Most of the Saylor Academy course I took last year was just videos of Andreas, highly recommend
He is an amazing educator, his youtube channel is one the best resources to learn about bitcoin. I can't get enough of his speeches.
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Andreas Antonopoulos of Mastering Bitcoin taught me the most about the protocol
Stadicus of raspibolt.org taught me the most about setting up my own node
Breedlove!
Initially it was Max Keiser and then years later Gigi, Odell and Marty Bent.
greg maxwell i think
Nick Szabo
Renato Trezoitão (aka Renato Amoedo)
Antonopoulos and Odell
Same here. My dad is going on 80 but he’s got a knack for knowing when something is a good idea. I knew what Bitcoin was way before him, but I didn’t acquire any or begin to really learn about it until I realized he owned some.
Adam Back and Jameson Lopp
I've learned from Andreas Antonopoulos, Lunaticoin (best BTC content creator in Spanish) & Chris Conney
By far it is Nick Szabo for me.
His essays ("Shelling Out", "Social Scalability", etc.) were out of this world, weaving deep knowledge from multiple fields into a cohesive whole.
Tony lightning from 21ideas.org.
Although not dirrectly, but with his translations I found beautiful library of books, articles etc. that otherwise wouldn't even hear about.
Jimmy Song
I’ll go with Pomp
Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren
Michael Saylor. (His podcast with Robert Breedlove on the history of money was excellent). I would say he takes the ‘engineers approach’ when it comes to explaining the value of Bitcoin which will (and has) helped onboard a lot of people.
Giacomo Zucco
Pieter Wuille has spent a lot of time educating people about bitcoin. If you have a bitcoin question that leads you to a stackoverflow post, I'll bet Pieter has answered it: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/208/pieter-wuille
Definitely an excellent choice here. Not one who will seek to create buzz on social networks like others, but a true Bitcoiner, who moreover works on the source code of Bitcoin and thus actively participates in supporting this monetary revolution for years!
Barak Obama, George Bush, Casey Rodarmor
Andreas Antonopoulos and Jimmy Song probably because of their books
A random guy whose posts I saw on Mastodon, who later disappeared from there so I can't really thank him anymore. I was already looking towards crypto before (due to certain infamous events in my country), though not strictly focusing on bitcoin. This guy just mentioned a few concepts such as lightning, multi-sig, whirlpool coinjoin, that triggered me to read more on that and eventually realized the power of bitcoin.
For me very simple, how to get more satoshi
Matthew R. Kratter without a shadow of a doubt, his Youtube channel (and daily uploads) are top tier and taught me so much.
https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University
Second, i would say Michael Saylor, third Andreas Antonopoulos.
These three guys have orange pilled millions.
Ben with the BTC Sessions
Jimmy Song and Andreas Antonopoulos. I'd also learned by watching some video presentations of Pieter Wuille and Andrew Chow.
Myself.
My entire life, I was unknowingly searching for Bitcoin, and eventually, I found it.
Bitcoiners that stand out for me who I learned a lot from are Justin Moon (Buidl / mooniversity programming course) and Bitstein.
Gregory Maxwell
Matt Odell
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