CZ, Michael Saylor and Gary Gensler

“ Our employees are happier, our customers are happier, our brand has developed a hundred times since we took over the Bitcoin strategy. ”

“ at home is a place to live. Bitcoin is a way of living. ”

Saylor is not just talk. He personally invested a lot of money in Bitcoin. A week ago he announced that he personally had 17,732 BTC, which he apparently bought for $ 9,882 on average. This supply is now worth $ 840 million, compared to $ 175 million when buying. At the height of BTC in November, its stock was worth $ 1.2 billion.

and not only through the purchase Saylor contributed to Bitcoin. He appears almost every other day in podcasts, television interviews, magazine and newspaper interviews, seminars and conferences to talk about Bitcoin. At the beginning of this year, he was instrumental in the formation of Bitcoin Mining Council. The council, which is made up of Bitcoin miners in North America, has searched for opportunities to make Bitcoin mining less environmentally hazardous.

he is not without his controversy. In September, for example, he was accused of being behind a BTC dump where the price broke considerably. This happened after he had transferred all the BTC that has his stock corporation to a private company, which means that he can sell without official approval.

Changpeng "Cz" Zhao

While Dorsey, Musk and Saylor are known to be loud BTC supporters, Changpeng Zhao is much more reserved, but just as influential, if not more.

CZ is the founder and CEO of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange according to trading volume. Before that, he was an engineer at OKCOIN before discovering the opportunity to build a similar stock exchange, which is based and attractive in China.

Since Binance is the platform that dictates the global trade industry, CZ has de facto developed into a royal maker. Cryptocurrencies he loves have increased exponentially, supported by a variety of trading pairs on Binance. Those he is, like Bitcoin SV, have suffered a massive blow. He was the man behind BSV's delisting on Binance and several other top trading platforms such as octopuses.

As a majority owner of the largest stock exchange in the world, CZ has earned a lot of money. In fact, he could be the richest man in crypto very well. Binance is estimated at over $ 200 billion, and since Forbes holds about 30 percent of the stock exchange, it is over $ 66 billion. Before you take into account the tokens he has, including a flat-rate amount from Binance Coin, whose market capitalization is now $ 87 billion.

But CZ is not so interested in the money, he says. In a recent interview, he said that he only wanted to build web3 and introduce the world. And until he dies, he wants to have made most of his assets.

Unfortunately, CZ spent most of its year of taking care of the supervisory authorities. His exchange was the subject of several official measures, including partial or complete ban in over a dozen countries. He even indicated that he will withdraw from his position as CEO of Binance to pave the way for someone with compliance background, where his exchange has failed.

Gary Gensler

Every person on this list is a cryptocurrency fan and passionate supporter, except Gary Gensler. The head of the US stock exchange supervisory authority Securities and Exchange Commission is not a big crypto fan, but equally influential in the direction that the industry is taking.

Gensler took over the SEC in April this year and replaced Jay Clayton. The entire industry hoped that this meant more beneficial regulations for the sector because it has been a pro crypto champion for years. He even taught a blockchain course on.

But Gensler had other plans. He would not be forgiving with the industry, and he made it clear very early. One of the decisive events of his short career as SEC boss was the case Sec vs. Ripple. He took over from Clayton and doubled the case and seems to pull him in length for many months. He was also not afraid to pursue other companies, including Coinbase for his lend product.

The most positive result of Gensler's reign was his consent to a Bitcoin ETF. Clayton was persistent against it, but Gensler approved the Proshares Bitcoin Strategy ETF in October, and it was an immediate success. This ETF was the tailwind that Bitcoin drove to a new record high the following month.

But even after he has approved some Futures ETFs, he still faces people like Grayscale because he refused to approve a spot ETF.