Bitcoin Cash: The People
Satoshi Nakamoto - original creator of Bitcoin (from which Bitcoin Cash originates)
Roger Ver - arguably the biggest fan and promoter of Bitcoin Cash, founder of Bitcoin.com
Amaury Séchet - Bitcoin ABC, arguably "creator of Bitcoin Cash"
Freetrader - the original developer along with Amaury Séchet
Tom Zander - developer of Flowee The Hub, Indexer, TxVulcano, FloweeJS
Jonald Fyookball - developer of Electron Cash, co-author of SLP token specification, CashFusion
Karol Trzeszczkowski - developer of Mecenas plugin, Last Will plugin, Inter-Wallet transfer plugin, Simple Escrow Plugin
Chris Pacia - BCHD, Lead backend developer for Open Bazaar bringing decentralized marketplace to the world
Josh Ellithorpe (zquestz) - BCHD
Tyler S - BCHD
emergent_reasons - BCHD
Jason Cox - Bitcoin ABC
Joshua Green - Bitcoin Verde
Jonathan Silverblood - Cashual Wallet, CashID, CashAccounts
Pokkst - Crescent Cash, tipbitcoin.cash (explainer video), bitcoincashj
Axel Gembe - Electron Cash
Calin Culianu - Electron Cash, co-author of SLP token specification
Imaginary_Username - Electron Cash
AlwaysAn0n - CashShuffle.js
Chris Troutner - SLP SDK, BITBOX SDK
James Cramer - SLPDB, Electron Cash SLP
Jason Dreyzehner - Bitauth-ide, CashChannels
Jonathan Toomim - creator of XThinner
Rosco Kalis - creator of CashScript language
Gabriel Cardona - Bitbox SDK
Tendo Pein - Spedn contract programming language
Mark B. Lundeberg - co-author of SLP token specification, CashFusion
Vin Armani - founder of CoinText (send Bitcoins via SMS), creator of SLP Postage protocol
Kain_niaK - Bitcoin Cash enthusiast
Tobias Ruck - creator of the smart card that produces Bitcoin Cash signatures
Tireless moderators of r/btc (very important channel for Bitcoin Cash communications): BitcoinXio, MagmaHindenburg , evilrootreddit, Bitcoinopoly, BeijingBitcoins, BitcoinIsTehFuture
Egon_1 - Bitcoin Cash enthusiast
awemany - Bitcoin Unlimited, Bitcoin ABC, Storm, inflation bug finder extraordinaire
Antony Zegers - Bitcoin ABC, formerly also Bitcoin Unlimited
Andrea Suisani - Bitcoin Unlimited, helped to create Bitcoin ABC
Dagur Valberg Johannsson - Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Unlimited, ABC, Electron Cash
Peter Rizun - Bitcoin Unlimited (fee market w/o blocksize cap, subchains, 1 GB blocks test) w/ Andrew G. Stone
Andrew G. Stone - Bitcoin Unlimited lead developer, many contributions incl. on OP_CDS-/V, 1 GB blocks test w/ Peter Rizun
Peter Tschipper - Bitcoin Unlimited (parval, XthinBlocks)
Jihan Wu - mining supporter of big block contingency plan (UAHF) that became BCH
Haipo Yang - ViaBTC founder who mined the first Bitcoin Cash block
Jiang Zhuoer - BTC.top, notable strategist and defender of Bitcoin Cash against hash-based attacks
Juan Garavaglia, Matteo Friedman, Guillermo Paoletti: bitPrim - quite instrumental in the launch of Bitcoin Cash
José - founder of EatBCH
Paul Wasensteiner - Bitcoin Cash Fund (BCF), Bitcoin Cash Association (BCA), earnest promoter of BCH and early supporter of hard fork
Justin Bons - Cyber Capital, Bitcoin evangelist
saddit42 - creator of LazyFox.io
rawb0t - creator of u/tippr and Rocketr.net
Jason Chavannes - one of the creators of memo.cash
Shun Usami - Founder of Yenom wallet
Corbin Fraser @maplesyrupsucker and @porlybe - co-creators of the txhighway.com
Anonymous creator of txstreet.com
Rick Falkvinge - CEO of BCH ;)
C. Edward Kelso - Editor-in-chief of CoinSpice / Host of the CoinSpice podcast
Adrian Barwicki - Creator of honest.cash, a decentralized uncensorable platform to post your blogs
Akane Yokoo - Tokyo Bitcoin Cash meetup co-organizer, promoting BCH adoption in Tokyo
alternativewinter - Host of the Bitcoin Cash YouTube channel with many episodes about cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin Cash information
Andreas Brekken - Founder of Shitcoin.com
BetaDollar - Started the "Bitcoin Out Loud" YouTube channel debunking Bitcoin Cash myths and other lies/propaganda regarding cryptocurrencies
Chronos - Started the "One Minute Crypto" channel on YouTube explaining crypto concepts within minutes, always with a smile on his face
Corbin Fraser - Bitcoin.com weekly YouTube video channel host and big Bitcoin Cash supporter
Corentin Mercier - This guy is spreading Bitcoin Cash adoption to merchants like crazy; created telegram BCH tipperbot
donwonton - The guy behind the "Decentralized Thought" YouTube channel where Craig Wright shows off his watches in an attempt to humiliate donwonton but he handled it gracefully
Emil Oldenburg - CTO of Bitcoin.com and really smart guy
Gavin Andresen - Satoshi Nakamoto handed over the development of Bitcoin to Gavin Andresen and is one of the granddaddy of cryptocurrencies
George Bissias - Play an important role on the graphene research and implementation in the BUcash project
Gloria Coronel - Help LocalBitcoinCash in many ways and was one of the most awesome girl in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem
Hayden Otto - Executive Editor of the CoinSpice team and appearing in many videos featuring how easy and fast it was to transact using Bitcoin Cash, Instrumental for merchant adoption in Australia
JajaaSB - Onboarding merchants in Thailand and looking fantastically awesome in these Bitcoin Cash videos
Jamie Redman - Wrote many articles about cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin Cash and had to endure constant harassments from mentally retarded bcash trolls
Jason Sheman - Made Bitcoin Cash fun again with all the interesting games over at Bitcoin.com
jessquit - Has maintained a clear message throughout multiple splits about the narrow path Bitcoin needs to navigate to become real p2p cash for the world
Kara - Help LocalBitcoinCash in many ways and was one of the most awesome girl in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem
kptnkook - Creator of the Cointext-Anypay videos and BCH Ambassador Program Organizer involving the Cointext-Anypay remittance solution
Leandro Di Marco - The one who started this idea of recognizing Bitcoin Cash folks in the ecosystem, leading to this Hall Of Fame
Lin Zerd - Writer of the CoinSpice team
Mike Hearn - (Medium) Stood up for big blocks when it wasn't cool back then. Now it's cool because Bitcoin Cash is awesome, we hope he comes back.
MobTwo - One of the biggest Bitcoin Cash supporters in the space
SatoshisSoul - Onboarded merchants in Barcelona and Venezuela, an unsung hero in the quest for merchant adoption. - Started "The Real Bitcoin Club" and the bitcoinmap.cash mobile app where you can find merchants to spend your Bitcoin Cash
shadowofharbringer - Amazing RES investigative skills and outing shills, one Blockstream fly at a time
TaoJones - One of the most active tipper for BCH, onboarding lots of new people into the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem
tracyspacy - Creator of memopay.xyz where you can advertise your products/services directly to Bitcoin Cash users
Shammah Chancellor - ex-ABC developer
@Hostfat - moderator of many BCH chats, beta-tester of many applications, great collaborator of the community
Collin Enstad - host of Collin' It Like It Is
Alex Winter - Creator of satoshiwall.cash
Joannes Vermorel - Author of a lot of interesting ideas for Bitcoin Cash (Terabyte blocks for Bitcoin Cash)
Future candidates
George Donnelly - helping spread BCH awareness in LatAm
Important contributors, that sadly have left Bitcoin Cash
Unwriter - co-author of SLP token specification, creator of BitSocket, BitQuery, BitDB
Ryan X. Charles - co-author of SLP token specification
kyuupichan (Neil Booth) for his contributions to making Electrum work on Bitcoin Cash (via ElectrumX + Electron Cash)
Tom Harding - Bitcoin XT lead developer, BCH DAA & double spend research
apagut - HandCash
Please comment
If you know of anyone that is pretty important in making Bitcoin Cash what it is (even if all we know is their pseudonym) - please comment, we'll update the list.
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Nice article