There's a lot of Bitcoiners who I would put here, but I haven't met them unfotunately.

The smartest person I met IRL is probably Dylan LeClair. I had a really interesting discussion with him on the Japanese yen and the state of the Bank of Japan at the bitcoin conference last month and he clearly is extremely bright and has really good ideas on how to reproduce the saylor playbook in Japan, which is currently the G7 country that has gone farthest in debt creation, monetary experimentalism, and ZIRP.