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All (91)Theorist (17)Economist (24)Researcher (10)Builder (40)

#	Name	Era	Lifespan	Role
1	Silvio GesellFreigeld, demurrage, natural economic order, stamp scrip	Classical	1862–1930	Theorist
2	Friedrich A. HayekDenationalisation of money, currency competition, knowledge problem, spontaneous order	Austrian	1899–1992	Economist
3	Bernard LietaerComplementary currencies, monetary ecology, Terra TRC, yin/yang money	Modern	1942–2019	Theorist
4	Margrit KennedyInterest-free money, regional currencies, demurrage in practice	Modern	1939–2013	Theorist
5	Lyn AldenHard money, monetary debasement, energy economics, Bitcoin macro	Modern	1985–	Researcher
6	Irving FisherQuantity theory of money, 100% reserve banking, compensated dollar, Fisher equation	Classical	1867–1947	Economist
7	L. Randall WrayModern Monetary Theory, sovereign currency issuance, taxes-drive-money, employer of last resort	Post-Keynesian	1953–	Economist
8	Narayana KocherlakotaMoney as memory, monetary policy theory, mechanism design	Modern	1963–	Economist
9	Helmut CreutzCompound interest critique, Freiwirtschaft, debt-money systemic effects	Modern	1923–2017	Theorist
10	James RobertsonSovereign money, monetary reform, sane alternative economics	Modern	1928–2020	Theorist
11	Charles EisensteinGift economies, sacred economics, demurrage, negative interest	Modern	1967–	Theorist
12	Richard DouthwaiteEcological economics, regional currencies, energy-backed money	Modern	1942–2011	Economist
13	Thomas H. Greco Jr.Mutual credit, credit clearing, post-monetary exchange	Modern	1936–	Theorist
14	Brett ScottCashless society critique, monetary anthropology, fintech politics	Modern	1980–	Researcher
15	Josh Ryan-CollinsMonetary policy unconventional tools, helicopter money, land economics	Modern	—	Economist
16	Mahmoud A. El-GamalIslamic finance, riba prohibition, equity-based money	Modern	—	Economist
17	Biagio BossoneBank seigniorage, financial systems, IMF policy	Modern	—	Economist
18	J.P. KoningMonetary history, stablecoins, CBDCs, private money	Modern	—	Researcher
19	Haseeb QureshiStablecoin taxonomy, crypto investing, mechanism design	Crypto	—	Builder
20	Kathleen TysonMulticurrency mercantilism, FX systems, payments infrastructure	Modern	—	Researcher
21	Ester BarinagaCommunity currencies, social entrepreneurship, monetary commons	Modern	—	Researcher
22	Ben PouladianTokenised dollar architecture, stablecoin policy, monetary plumbing	Crypto	—	Researcher
23	Ethan BuchmanMutual credit at internet scale, monetary cycles, Tendermint consensus	Crypto	—	Builder
24	Martin KöppelmannUBI tokens, prediction markets, social money	Crypto	—	Builder
25	Christian RieckGame-theoretic money, dignity-based currencies, Digni Geld	Modern	—	Economist
26	Satoshi NakamotoProof-of-work, fixed supply, peer-to-peer electronic cash	Crypto	—	Builder
27	Michael UnterguggenbergerStamp scrip, demurrage in practice, municipal money	Classical	1884–1936	Builder
28	Zoltan PozsarShadow banking, Bretton Woods III, collateral hierarchies, dollar plumbing	Modern	—	Economist
29	Luke GromenSovereign debt cycles, FX wars, gold remonetisation, fiscal dominance	Modern	—	Researcher
30	Ludwig von MisesRegression theorem, Austrian business cycle, sound money, calculation problem	Austrian	1881–1973	Economist
31	Carl MengerOrigins of money, marginalism, methodological individualism, salability	Classical	1840–1921	Economist
32	Hyman MinskyFinancial instability hypothesis, hedge/speculative/Ponzi finance, endogenous money	Post-Keynesian	1919–1996	Economist
33	John Maynard KeynesBancor, international clearing union, demand management, liquidity preference	Classical	1883–1946	Economist
34	Knut WicksellNatural rate of interest, cumulative process, pure credit economy	Classical	1851–1926	Economist
35	Perry MehrlingMoney view, hierarchy of money, dealer of last resort, money market plumbing	Modern	1959–	Economist
36	Saifedean AmmousHard money, time preference, stock-to-flow, Bitcoin standard	Crypto	—	Economist
37	Nick SzaboBit Gold, smart contracts, shelling out, social scalability	Crypto	1964–	Builder
38	Hal FinneyReusable proof-of-work, PGP, cryptographic cash	Crypto	1956–2014	Builder
39	W Wei Daib-money, distributed digital cash, cryptographic protocols	Crypto	—	Builder
40	Adam BackHashcash, proof-of-work, sidechains, Bitcoin scaling	Crypto	1970–	Builder
41	George SelginFree banking, productivity norm, monetary equilibrium	Austrian	1957–	Economist
42	Lawrence H. WhiteFree banking, monetary institutions, Scottish banking history	Austrian	1954–	Economist
43	Murray Rothbard100% gold reserves, fractional-reserve critique, anarcho-capitalism, free-market money, Austrian business cycle	Austrian	1926–1995	Economist
44	Will RuddickCommunity inclusion currencies, Bangla-Pesa, commitment pooling, Sarafu Network	Modern	—	Builder
45	Christian GrothoffPrivacy-preserving e-cash, taxable anonymous payments, GNU Taler, free software	Crypto	1977–	Builder
46	Alain BrenzikoferProof of personhood, local community currencies, crypto basic income, demurrage	Crypto	—	Builder
47	Matthew SlaterMutual credit, Credit Commons protocol, community currencies, moneyless trading	Modern	—	Builder
48	Anna StoneCrypto universal basic income, G$ token, digital financial inclusion	Crypto	—	Builder
49	Sid SijbrandijAnti-poverty stablecoins, seigniorage for good, embedded philanthropy	Crypto	1979–	Builder
50	Luzius MeisserFrankencoin, oracle-free stablecoins, Bitcoin reserve initiative, currency competition	Crypto	—	Builder
51	Paul NiehausUnconditional cash transfers, cash benchmarking, universal basic income evidence, direct giving	Modern	—	Economist
52	David ChaumBlind signatures, ecash, mix networks, digital cash privacy	Crypto	1955–	Builder
53	Cédric MoreauLibre money, Universal Dividend, Relative Theory of Money, web of trust	Crypto	—	Builder
54	O Obi NwosuFederated ecash, community custody, Fedimint, financial inclusion	Crypto	—	Builder
55	Joshua DávilaBlockchain socialism, post-capitalist crypto, solidarity primitives, cooperative money	Crypto	—	Theorist
56	Hugo TrentesauxLibre currency, Universal Dividend, web of trust, Duniter v2	Crypto	1995–	Builder
57	Nicolas BurteyBitcoin-native banking, circular Bitcoin economies, Lightning wallets, synthetic dollars	Crypto	—	Builder
58	Bradley RettlerResistance money, peer-reviewed bitcoin scholarship, financial privacy, inclusion	Crypto	—	Theorist
59	Andrew M. BaileyResistance money, censorship resistance, philosophy of bitcoin, debanking critique	Crypto	—	Theorist
60	Craig WarmkeResistance money, sanctions resistance, philosophy of bitcoin	Crypto	—	Theorist
61	Briana MarburyOpen payments, Interledger adoption, digital financial inclusion	Modern	—	Builder
62	M Michael BohmeyerCrowdfunded basic income, unconditional cash experiments, basic-income RCTs, welfare access	Modern	1984–	Builder
63	Rune ChristensenDAI, overcollateralized stablecoins, decentralized governance, Endgame	Crypto	—	Builder
64	C Cyrill ThommenDecentralized euro stablecoin, Frankencoin architecture, crypto payment rails, retail crypto payments	Crypto	—	Builder
65	Leah DowneyDemocratic money creation, central bank accountability, iterative legislative governance	Modern	—	Theorist
66	Michael TubbsGuaranteed income pilots, city-led cash transfers, income floor, poverty abolition	Modern	1990–	Builder
67	Henk van ArkelCircular money, Cyclos payment software, regional currencies, interest-free economy	Modern	—	Builder
68	Evan SchwartzInterledger Protocol, streaming micropayments, packetized payments, ledger interoperability	Crypto	—	Builder
69	Jón Helgi EgilssonOn-chain e-money, regulated euro stablecoin, Web3 IBANs, central-bank access for fintechs	Crypto	1967–	Builder
70	Stefan EichMoney as political institution, democratic money, monetary depoliticization	Modern	—	Theorist
71	Stefan ThomasInterledger, Web Monetization, streaming micropayments, interoperable payments	Crypto	—	Builder
72	Rachel O'DwyerPlatform tokens, programmable money, gift vouchers as money, grassroots token economies	Modern	—	Researcher
73	Esteve BadiaMutual credit, community exchange systems, open-source currency software, collaborative finance	Modern	—	Builder
74	Elizabeth StarkLightning Network, instant micropayments, Taproot Assets, permissionless payments	Crypto	—	Builder
75	Tim JenkinCommunity Exchange System, mutual credit, moneyless trading, Operation Vula cryptography	Modern	1948–	Builder
76	Mona HannaPrescribing cash, universal infant cash transfers, health equity, Flint water crisis science	Modern	1976–	Builder
77	Christine Desanconstitutional theory of money, money as a democratic medium, Making Money, monetary design as governance	Modern	—	Theorist
78	Neha NarulaProject Hamilton, OpenCBDC, digital currency infrastructure, the future of money	Crypto	—	Researcher
79	Gloria Zhaopackage relay, TRUC transactions, mempool policy, Bitcoin network defense	Crypto	—	Builder
80	Stephanie KeltonModern Monetary Theory, monetary sovereignty, functional finance, the job guarantee, the deficit myth	Modern	1969–	Economist
81	Guy Standingbasic income, the precariat, rentier capitalism, commons dividends, social justice	Modern	1948–	Economist
82	Jameson LoppBitcoin self-custody, multisignature key management, node resilience, Statoshi, self-sovereign security	Crypto	—	Builder
83	Katharina Pistorthe legal code of capital, money as a legal institution, legal theory of finance, coding of wealth and inequality, the politics of money	Modern	1963–	Theorist
84	Lev Menandthe money franchise, central banking and emergency intervention, FedAccounts and public digital dollars, banks as public utilities, rebuilding banking law	Modern	—	Theorist
85	Morgan Ricksmoney as a public good, sovereign money, ending shadow banking, FedAccounts for public money, banks as public utilities	Modern	—	Theorist
86	Joaquim Melocommunity banking, social currencies, solidarity economy, banking the excluded, e-dinheiro	Modern	—	Builder
87	Robert Laukogovernance-free money, immutable protocols, interest-free borrowing, user-set interest rates, full redeemability	Crypto	—	Builder
88	Markus Frankelocal-currency stablecoins, onchain FX, a stablecoin for every country, decentralized stability mechanisms	Crypto	—	Builder
89	Ariah Klages-Mundtall-weather stablecoin design, deleveraging spirals, stablecoin risk models, DeFi economic security	Crypto	—	Researcher
90	Luca Prosperimoney middleware, cryptodollars, reconstructing the monetary stack, back-end of banking	Crypto	—	Builder
91	Richard WernerQuantity Theory of Credit, credit creation of money, quantitative easing, community banking	Modern	1967–	Economist