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The Contemporary Era
Lives within living memory, from world wars to the digital age.
Contemporary era
Satoshi Nakamoto
Pseudonymous creator or creators of Bitcoin
Contemporary era
Hal Finney
May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014
American software developer (1956-2014)
Contemporary era
Nick Szabo
b. April 5, 1964
American computer scientist
Contemporary era
Adam Back
b. 1970
British cryptographer
Contemporary era
Wei Dai
Cryptographer, creator of Crypto++, and author of the b-money proposal
Contemporary era
David Chaum
b. 1955
American computer scientist and cryptographer
Contemporary era
Vitalik Buterin
b. January 31, 1994
Russian-Canadian computer scientist
Contemporary era
Gavin Wood
b. April 22, 1980
Decentralized internet pioneer
Contemporary era
Joseph Lubin
b. 1964
Canadian-American entrepreneur
Contemporary era
Vlad Zamfir
b. March 1, 1974
Romanian actor
Contemporary era
Charles Hoskinson
b. November 5, 1987
American entrepreneur, founder of Cardano
Contemporary era
Charlie Lee
Computer scientist and creator of Litecoin
Contemporary era
Billy Markus
b. 1983
Co-founder of Cryptocurreny Dogecoin
Contemporary era
Jackson Palmer
Dogecoin co-founder
Contemporary era
Dan Larimer
b. c. 1950
Software developer; creator of BitShares, Steem and EOS.IO
Contemporary era
Jed McCaleb
b. 1975
American tech entrepreneur and philanthropist
Contemporary era
Chris Larsen
b. 1960
American programmer
Contemporary era
Brad Garlinghouse
b. February 6, 1971
American businessman
Contemporary era
David Schwartz
b. November 16, 1969
Programmer
Contemporary era
Justin Sun
b. July 10, 1990
China-born Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur
Contemporary era
Silvio Micali
b. October 13, 1954
Italian-American computer scientist
Contemporary era
Emin Gün Sirer
b. c. 1950
Turkish-American computer scientist (born 1950)
Contemporary era
Jutta Steiner
b. 1983
Computer security expert and cryptocurrency entrepreneur
Contemporary era
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
b. May 13, 1974
Cypherpunk
Contemporary era
Sam Williams
b. March 31, 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Contemporary era
Bram Cohen
b. October 12, 1975
American programmer, creator of BitTorrent protocol
Contemporary era
Mustafa Al-Bassam
b. 1995
British computer hacker and co-founder of LulzSec
Contemporary era
Ed Felten
b. March 25, 1963
Professor of computer science and public affairs
Contemporary era
Eli Ben-Sasson
b. 1970
Ph.D. Hebrew University 2001
Contemporary era
Yonatan Sompolinsky
b. 1984
Israeli computer scientist
Contemporary era
Ben Goertzel
b. December 8, 1966
Author and researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence
Contemporary era
Pavel Durov
b. October 10, 1984
Technology entrepreneur (born 1984)
Contemporary era
Nikolai Durov
b. November 21, 1980
Russian programmer and mathematician
Contemporary era
Sam Altman
b. April 22, 1985
American venture capitalist
Contemporary era
Alex Blania
b. 1993
German entrepreneur
Contemporary era
Yat Siu
b. 1973
Austrian-born Hong Kong entrepreneur (born 1973)
Contemporary era
Gavin Andresen
b. November 11, 1966
Software developer
Contemporary era
Pieter Wuille
b. September 10, 1984
Bitcoin Core developer
Contemporary era
Peter Todd
b. 1962
Canadian scholar
Contemporary era
Amir Taaki
b. February 6, 1988
British-Iranian anarchist revolutionary, hacktivist, and programmer
Contemporary era
James Howells
b. July 10, 1971
QC 2014
Contemporary era
Eric Hughes
b. c. 1953
Cypherpunk movement co-founder
Contemporary era
John Gilmore
b. 1955
Cypherpunk co-founder and internet activist
Contemporary era
Phil Zimmermann
b. February 12, 1954
Creator of Pretty Good Privacy
Contemporary era
Len Sassaman
April 9, 1980 – July 3, 2011
US computer systems engineer
Contemporary era
Ralph Merkle
b. February 2, 1952
American cryptographer and cryonicist (born 1952)
Contemporary era
Dan Boneh
b. 1969
Israeli cryptographer
Contemporary era
Matthew D. Green
b. 1976
American cryptographer and researcher
Contemporary era
Dave Kleiman
1967 – April 26, 2013
American computer investigator
Contemporary era
Craig Steven Wright
b. October 23, 1970
Australian computer scientist and businessman
Contemporary era
Calvin Ayre
b. May 25, 1961
Canadian businessman, Gambling Industry Founder, Blockchain Venture Capitalist
Contemporary era
Changpeng Zhao
b. September 10, 1977
Canadian businessman
Contemporary era
Brian Armstrong
b. January 25, 1983
American business executive and investor
Contemporary era
Fred Ehrsam
b. May 10, 1988
American business executive and investor
Contemporary era
Sam Bankman-Fried
b. March 6, 1992
American cryptocurrency entrepreneur convicted of fraud (born 1992)
Contemporary era
Caroline Ellison
b. 1994
American business executive and criminal (born 1994)
Contemporary era
Anthony Scaramucci
b. January 6, 1964
American financier and political figure (born 1964)
Contemporary era
Jesse Powell
February 24, 1971 – September 13, 2022
American singer (1970–2022)
Contemporary era
Cameron Winklevoss
b. August 21, 1981
American businessman and rower
Contemporary era
Tyler Winklevoss
b. August 21, 1981
American businessman and rower