People

Nils Schneider aka tcatm - Bitcoin developer, owner of BitcoinWatch, creator and owner of BitcoinCharts, GPU mining software and JS web interface.

Patrick Strateman aka phantomcircuit - Bitcoin developer, creator of Intersango, member of Bitcoin Consultancy and creator of Python Bitcoin implementation.

Jed McCaleb, original developer of MtGox. Previously created eDonkey2000.

Gavin Andresen- (Profile) Satoshi client maintainer. He previously worked at Silicon Graphics and now runs his own company.

Mark Karpeles aka MagicalTux- Owner of the largest bitcoin exchange, MtGox, this Bitcoin Wiki, and Kalyhost

Jeff Garzik- (Wikipedia Entry) Satoshi client core developer, Linux kernel developmer at Red Hat, and the founder of Bitcoin Watch.

Pieter Wuille aka sipa- Satoshi client developer and maintainer of the network graphs http://bitcoin.sipa.be

Stefan Thomas aka justmoon- creator of the WeUseCoins.com site/video and WebCoin.

Michael Marquardt aka theymos- creator of the widely used blockexplorer.com site, and BitcoinTalk Forum

Amir Taaki aka genjix- creator of the Britcoin and Intersango exchanges, libbitcoin library for Bitcoin, Spesmilo, Bitcoin Consultancy, Vibanko, GLBSE client, Bitcoin poker client, Python bindings for Bitcoin, Pastecoin and others.

Luke Dashjr aka Luke-Jr- Eligius owner/admin and Spesmilo core developer

Vladimir Marchenko- Profile, runs Marchenko Ltd which sells mining contracts, previously developed the figator.org search engine.

Hal Finney- one of the creators of PGP and one of the earliest contributors to the bitcoin project.

Michael Hendrix aka mndrix- creator of the now defunct CoinPal and CoinCard services

Art Forz- developed the first GUI miner and at one time his GPU mining farm (the ArtFarm) was mining over a third of all blocks.

Martti Malmi aka Sirius- Operates the host for bitcoin.org and is an administrator of the Bitcoin Forum.

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