the long ledger

Timeline

Every bar is a life, drawn to scale. Drag to travel through the centuries, scroll to zoom, sweep the cursor to see who was alive in any year, and click a bar to open the record.

era:

2000 BCE2026

2000 BCE1000 BCE0 CE10002000

Christoph Jentzsch Erik Voorhees Richard Teng Arthur Hayes Juan Benet Stefan Thomas Joseph Poon Timothy C. May Roger Ver Dan Larimer Emin Gün Sirer Ralph Merkle Eric Hughes Silvio Micali Phil Zimmermann David Chaum John Gilmore Nicolas Cary Hal Finney Chris Larsen Calvin Ayre Peter Todd Ed Felten Nick Szabo Joseph Lubin Anthony Scaramucci Ben Goertzel Gavin Andresen Dave Kleiman David Schwartz Dan Boneh Adam Back Eli Ben-Sasson Craig Steven Wright Brad Garlinghouse James Howells Jesse Powell Yat Siu Vlad Zamfir Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn Jed McCaleb Bram Cohen Matthew D. Green Changpeng Zhao Kris Marszalek Gavin Wood Nikolai Durov Len Sassaman Cameron Winklevoss Tyler Winklevoss Billy Markus Jutta Steiner Brian Armstrong Yonatan Sompolinsky Pavel Durov Pieter Wuille Ben Delo Sam Altman Mark Karpelès Charles Hoskinson Amir Taaki Fred Ehrsam Charlie Shrem Justin Sun Sam Bankman-Fried Alex Blania Vitalik Buterin Caroline Ellison Mustafa Al-Bassam Sam Williams

2000 BCE to 2026 · 70 lives drawn · drag to travel, scroll to zoom, F for full screendrag to travel, pinch to zoom, tap a bar for detailsBusiest decade here: 1980s (1193 lives) · Longest life: Stefan Thomas (93 years)