BREAKDOWN: The 10 (Other) Most Crypto Influential
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🗓️ 11 December 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Analysts, Institutions, DAOs and more.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
CoinDesk has just completed its list of 2021’s 50 Most Influential people. On today’s episode, NLW shares that list, and then adds brief commentary on 10 more people or groups that he might have included, including Dylan LeClair and Will Clemente, Punk 6529, Visa’s Cuy Sheffield and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:16.3 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, December 11th, and we are doing something fun today, |
| 0:27.8 | something that is one of my favorite activities of the year, checking out end of the year list. |
| 0:32.5 | So I'm talking biggest trends, most important people, you name it. |
| 0:36.8 | I don't know that I'm going to have a chance |
| 0:38.5 | to really do my own list this year about trends or about anything else, given that this whole |
| 0:43.7 | podcast is a daily podcast thing. But what I thought would be fun today is to quickly breeze through |
| 0:49.8 | CoinDesk's most influential list. It just came out over the course of this week. They put 50 people on |
| 0:54.9 | there. And then share a few folks that I thought I would put on if I were editing. Now, I will say |
| 1:00.4 | this up front. I don't believe that most influential lists like this are meant to be definitive or |
| 1:05.8 | singular or exclusionary to anyone who wasn't on them. I think they're about provoking thought, about |
| 1:11.6 | reflecting on the year that was, about having a chance to, in the context of the Coin Desk |
| 1:16.2 | editorial room, probably debate internally a bunch of different things. So me adding 10 more |
| 1:21.4 | isn't a knock on who CoinDesk put on there, and I'm not going to go through and rank and |
| 1:24.9 | review anyone that they did. But so that you know who was on there, I'm going to start by quickly breezing through |
| 1:30.5 | that list of 50 folks, and then I'll get into 10-ish more that I might have had on my personal |
| 1:35.6 | list. |
| 1:36.7 | So CoinDisc didn't rank order their list, but they had a top 10 and then the rest of the top 50. So the top 10 includes Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, |
| 1:46.2 | Roham Gerigazlu, the CEO of Dapper Labs, which is NBA TopShot, |
| 1:50.6 | Bitcoin's taproot developers, Jack Mahler's, the founder and CEO of Strike, |
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