#BitcoinHashRateSurge The 20 Most Influential Personalities in the Bitcoin Industry in 2024

Meet the protagonists of one of the most important years in the history of Bitcoin.

It's hard to look back on this year and not be surprised by all the things that happened. Yes, we all agree that Bitcoin is inevitable, but 2024 stepped on the accelerator.

While in December 2023 we knew that the approval of Bitcoin Spot Exchange Traded Funds was a matter of time, no one predicted that these ETFs would reach in less than a year the place that it took more than a decade for gold ETFs to reach. And what no one expected is that 2025 would start with an apparently pro-crypto president sitting in the Oval Office of the White House.

Institutional FOMO hit and the growing list of companies creating and increasing their treasuries in Bitcoin also helped the price surpass USD 100,000 for the first time.

Overall, one of the best years for the industry in terms of adoption. Let's meet the people who most influenced the current situation.

1.- Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock

The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, in less than a year became the entity with the most bitcoin in the world. Obviously - you might think - with USD 11.5 trillion in assets under management (AUM), USD 54 billion in BTC is a small thing, just 0.47%. But this is almost double the AUM of its gold ETF, with the difference that the latter took twenty years to get to where it is.

2.- Michael Saylor, founder of MicroStrategy

Michael Saylor will be remembered in the economic history books as the architect of the institutional FOMO for Bitcoin. Since MicroStrategy began its Bitcoin strategy for corporate treasuries in 2021, the company has redoubled its efforts to accumulate as much Bitcoin as possible.

3.- Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States

Few events generated as much expectation in 2024 as the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.