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All (201)Theorist (19)Economist (45)Researcher (35)Builder (102)

#	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	n/a	Economist
16	Mahmoud A. El-GamalIslamic finance, riba prohibition, equity-based money	Modern	n/a	Economist
17	Biagio BossoneBank seigniorage, financial systems, IMF policy	Modern	n/a	Economist
18	J.P. KoningMonetary history, stablecoins, CBDCs, private money	Modern	n/a	Researcher
19	Haseeb QureshiStablecoin taxonomy, crypto investing, mechanism design	Crypto	n/a	Builder
20	Kathleen TysonMulticurrency mercantilism, FX systems, payments infrastructure	Modern	n/a	Researcher
21	Ester BarinagaCommunity currencies, social entrepreneurship, monetary commons	Modern	n/a	Researcher
22	Ben PouladianTokenised dollar architecture, stablecoin policy, monetary plumbing	Crypto	n/a	Researcher
23	Ethan BuchmanMutual credit at internet scale, monetary cycles, Tendermint consensus	Crypto	n/a	Builder
24	Martin KöppelmannUBI tokens, prediction markets, social money	Crypto	n/a	Builder
25	Christian RieckGame-theoretic money, dignity-based currencies, Digni Geld	Modern	n/a	Economist
26	Satoshi NakamotoProof-of-work, fixed supply, peer-to-peer electronic cash	Crypto	n/a	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	n/a	Economist
29	Luke GromenSovereign debt cycles, FX wars, gold remonetisation, fiscal dominance	Modern	n/a	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	n/a	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	n/a	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	n/a	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	n/a	Builder
47	Matthew SlaterMutual credit, Credit Commons protocol, community currencies, moneyless trading	Modern	n/a	Builder
48	Anna StoneCrypto universal basic income, G$ token, digital financial inclusion	Crypto	n/a	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	n/a	Builder
51	Paul NiehausUnconditional cash transfers, cash benchmarking, universal basic income evidence, direct giving	Modern	n/a	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	n/a	Builder
54	Obi NwosuFederated ecash, community custody, Fedimint, financial inclusion	Crypto	n/a	Builder
55	Joshua DávilaBlockchain socialism, post-capitalist crypto, solidarity primitives, cooperative money	Crypto	n/a	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	n/a	Builder
58	Bradley RettlerResistance money, peer-reviewed bitcoin scholarship, financial privacy, inclusion	Crypto	n/a	Theorist
59	Andrew M. BaileyResistance money, censorship resistance, philosophy of bitcoin, debanking critique	Crypto	n/a	Theorist
60	Craig WarmkeResistance money, sanctions resistance, philosophy of bitcoin	Crypto	n/a	Theorist
61	Briana MarburyOpen payments, Interledger adoption, digital financial inclusion	Modern	n/a	Builder
62	Michael BohmeyerCrowdfunded basic income, unconditional cash experiments, basic-income RCTs, welfare access	Modern	1984–	Builder
63	Rune ChristensenDAI, overcollateralized stablecoins, decentralized governance, Endgame	Crypto	n/a	Builder
64	Cyrill ThommenDecentralized euro stablecoin, Frankencoin architecture, crypto payment rails, retail crypto payments	Crypto	n/a	Builder
65	Leah DowneyDemocratic money creation, central bank accountability, iterative legislative governance	Modern	n/a	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	n/a	Builder
68	Evan SchwartzInterledger Protocol, streaming micropayments, packetized payments, ledger interoperability	Crypto	n/a	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	n/a	Theorist
71	Stefan ThomasInterledger, Web Monetization, streaming micropayments, interoperable payments	Crypto	n/a	Builder
72	Rachel O'DwyerPlatform tokens, programmable money, gift vouchers as money, grassroots token economies	Modern	n/a	Researcher
73	Esteve BadiaMutual credit, community exchange systems, open-source currency software, collaborative finance	Modern	n/a	Builder
74	Elizabeth StarkLightning Network, instant micropayments, Taproot Assets, permissionless payments	Crypto	n/a	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	n/a	Theorist
78	Neha NarulaProject Hamilton, OpenCBDC, digital currency infrastructure, the future of money	Crypto	n/a	Researcher
79	Gloria Zhaopackage relay, TRUC transactions, mempool policy, Bitcoin network defense	Crypto	n/a	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	n/a	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	n/a	Theorist
85	Morgan Ricksmoney as a public good, sovereign money, ending shadow banking, FedAccounts for public money, banks as public utilities	Modern	n/a	Theorist
86	Joaquim Melocommunity banking, social currencies, solidarity economy, banking the excluded, e-dinheiro	Modern	n/a	Builder
87	Robert Laukogovernance-free money, immutable protocols, interest-free borrowing, user-set interest rates, full redeemability	Crypto	n/a	Builder
88	Markus Frankelocal-currency stablecoins, onchain FX, a stablecoin for every country, decentralized stability mechanisms	Crypto	n/a	Builder
89	Ariah Klages-Mundtall-weather stablecoin design, deleveraging spirals, stablecoin risk models, DeFi economic security	Crypto	n/a	Researcher
90	Luca Prosperimoney middleware, cryptodollars, reconstructing the monetary stack, back-end of banking	Crypto	n/a	Builder
91	Richard WernerQuantity Theory of Credit, credit creation of money, quantitative easing, community banking	Modern	1967–	Economist
92	Jack Dorseybitcoin as the internet's native currency, Bitkey self-custody, Spiral open-source funding, decentralized mining, bitchat mesh messaging	Crypto	1976–	Builder
93	Lisa Neigutdual-funded Lightning channels, Lightning v2 interoperability, bitcoin protocol pedagogy, bitcoin++ builder conferences	Crypto	n/a	Builder
94	Roya Mahboobbitcoin wages for unbanked women, digital literacy for Afghan girls, financial autonomy under repression, bitcoin education through storytelling	Modern	n/a	Builder
95	Fereshteh Foroughbitcoin payroll for the unbanked, girls' coding education, stablecoin cash-out rails, digital wallets under sanctions	Modern	1985–	Builder
96	Evan Kuoelastic supply rebasing, AMPL unit of account, SPOT flatcoin, inflation-resistant store of value, rules over issuers	Crypto	n/a	Builder
97	Mike Schmidtbitcoin developer funding, protocol maintenance as a public good, post-quantum readiness, open-source grants and fellowships	Crypto	n/a	Builder
98	Makoto Nishibecommunity currency design, evolutionary institutional economics, digital-community currencies, post-national currency, money plurality	Modern	1962–	Economist
99	Noritaka OkabeJPYC yen stablecoin, regulated stablecoin issuance, yen on public blockchains, prepaid payment rails	Crypto	n/a	Builder
100	Bill Maureranthropology of money, payment infrastructures, mobile money, financial inclusion	Modern	1968–	Researcher
101	Christian GelleriChiemgauer regional currency, demurrage, e-Chiemgauer electronic payments, Climate Bonus, money democratization	Modern	n/a	Builder
102	Susan WittBerkShares local currency, community land trusts, local production for local consumption, decentralist economics	Modern	n/a	Builder
103	CalleCashu, Chaumian ecash on Bitcoin, blind signatures, Nutshell mint, offline bearer payments	Crypto	n/a	Builder
104	Eric SirionFedimint, federated Chaumian e-cash, community bitcoin custody, guardian federations	Crypto	n/a	Builder
105	Ndongo Samba SyllaCFA franc critique, monetary imperialism, African monetary sovereignty, decolonizing money	Modern	1978–	Economist
106	Kgothatso NgakoMachankura, bitcoin over USSD, Lightning on feature phones, offline-first financial inclusion	Crypto	n/a	Builder
107	Hunter BeastBIP-360, Pay-to-Merkle-Root, quantum-resistant addresses, post-quantum Bitcoin migration	Crypto	n/a	Builder
108	Ethan Heilmaneclipse attacks, TumbleBit, OP_CAT, ColliderScript, post-quantum Bitcoin	Crypto	n/a	Researcher
109	Lana Swartzpayment as media, transactional communities, transactional identity, scam economies	Modern	n/a	Researcher
110	Farida NabouremaBitcoin as protest money, Africa Bitcoin Conference, currency dependence, financial repression	Crypto	1990–	Builder
111	Noelyne SumbaBitcoin on feature phones, USSD Lightning access, grassroots adoption, Swahili bitcoin translation	Crypto	n/a	Builder
112	Florian DoldGNU Taler, privacy-preserving e-cash, payto URI scheme, provably secure payments	Crypto	n/a	Builder
113	Alex GladsteinFinancial privilege, bitcoin as freedom money, monetary colonialism, financial repression	Modern	n/a	Researcher
114	Özgür KesimZero-knowledge age restriction, privacy-preserving payments, GNU Taler, subsidiarity in e-commerce	Crypto	n/a	Researcher
115	F Fanny PigeaudCFA franc critique, monetary Françafrique, colonial currency arrangements, African monetary sovereignty	Modern	n/a	Researcher
116	Sarath DavalaMadhya Pradesh basic income pilots, unconditional cash transfers, emancipatory value of basic income, India Network for Basic Income	Modern	n/a	Researcher
117	Georgina GómezArgentina's Red de Trueque, monetary plurality, complementary currency systems, institutional economics of money	Modern	n/a	Researcher
118	Anita Posch(L)earn Bitcoin, Bitcoin for Fairness, Crack the Orange, grassroots bitcoin education in Africa	Crypto	n/a	Builder
119	Jérôme Blancmonetary plurality, alternative currency typology, local currencies for territorial development, money and the ecological turn	Modern	n/a	Economist
120	Rossitsa Tonchevacontemporary barter exchange systems, private non-bank money, complementary currency systems, municipal exchange design	Modern	n/a	Researcher
121	Eduardo H. Dinizsolidarity fintech, community bank digital payments, mobile money for financial inclusion, community currency design principles	Modern	n/a	Researcher
122	Craig RawSparrow Wallet, self-custody, own-node verification, coin control, air-gapped signing	Crypto	n/a	Builder
123	Tavneet SuriM-Pesa poverty impact, mobile money adoption, universal basic income experiments, digital finance for development	Modern	n/a	Economist
124	0xB10Cmining-pool transaction filtering, Bitcoin network observability, fork detection, peer-to-peer attack monitoring, open network data	Crypto	n/a	Builder
125	Jens Martignonicomplementary currency typology, community currency design, cooperative economics, monetary diversity, currency simulation	Modern	1963–	Researcher
126	M Marcus Petzlocal currency design, community currencies and rural renewal, Bristol Pound, monetary diversity, money games	Modern	n/a	Researcher
127	Pieter Wuillelibsecp256k1, Segregated Witness, Schnorr signatures, Taproot, BIP32 hierarchical deterministic wallets	Crypto	n/a	Builder
128	Rohan Greypublic digital cash, ECASH Act, hardware bearer instruments, legal design of money, stablecoin regulation	Modern	n/a	Researcher
129	Kako NubukpoCFA franc exit, monetary servitude, the eco, West African monetary sovereignty, heterodox development economics	Modern	1968–	Economist
130	Zooko Wilcox-O'HearnZcash, shielded transactions, zero-knowledge payments, Zooko's triangle, Tahoe-LAFS	Crypto	1974–	Builder
131	Leander Bindewaldmonetary diversity, legal definitions of money, community currency design, currency evaluation, complementary currencies	Modern	n/a	Researcher
132	Gernot Jochum-Müllertime credits, mutual credit, regional currencies, care banking, complementary currency design	Modern	n/a	Builder
133	Andrew PoelstraBulletproofs, Mimblewimble analysis, MuSig, Miniscript, Simplicity	Crypto	n/a	Researcher
134	Michael AshtonCPI swaps, inflation-linked instruments, purchasing power as unit of account, CPI-pegged stablecoin, real versus nominal money	Modern	n/a	Economist
135	Stefan Brunnhuberparallel digital currency, monetary ecosystem, financing the commons, green Bretton Woods 2.0, transformative finance	Modern	1962–	Theorist
136	Xavier DammanCitizen Wallet, Brussels Pay, transparent collective budgets, community currencies	Crypto	n/a	Builder
137	Francisco CalderónMostro, lnp2pBot, peer-to-peer Lightning trading, censorship-resistant exchange	Crypto	n/a	Builder
138	Karl Widerquistuniversal basic income, freedom as the power to say no, basic income experiments, common ownership of resources	Modern	1965–	Economist
139	Calvin KimUtreexo accumulators, stateless full nodes, btcd, cheap self-verification	Crypto	n/a	Builder
140	Rajarshi MaitraBitcoin developer education, study cohorts, grassroots developer communities, FOSS contribution pipelines	Crypto	n/a	Builder
141	Kevin Sundar RajCitizen Wallet, community currency wallets, NFC payments, flat-fee merchant terminals	Crypto	n/a	Builder
142	Kurt Ungeropen-source mining hardware, Bitshoka Nini, repairable ASIC miners, off-grid Bitcoin mining, rural electrification	Crypto	n/a	Builder
143	EggeCashu ecash, cashu-ts, Coco wallet library, eNuts wallet, npub.cash	Crypto	n/a	Builder
144	Jamal Errakibirust-bitcoin, cryptographic foundations, quantum-safe Bitcoin transactions, Bitcoin Illustrated	Crypto	n/a	Builder
145	Brandon OdiwuorBitcoin Core testing, CI infrastructure, developer mentorship, BitDevs Nairobi	Crypto	n/a	Builder
146	Leonardo LimaBitcoin Dev Kit, wallet tooling, Tor privacy, Esplora and Electrum clients	Crypto	n/a	Builder
147	Davidson SouzaFloresta, Utreexo accumulators, lightweight full nodes, trustless verification	Crypto	n/a	Builder
148	Erick Cestaridifferential fuzzing, Bitcoinfuzz, implementation consensus safety, Lightning protocol testing	Crypto	n/a	Builder
149	Johnny SantosP2Poolv2, decentralized mining pools, hashrate decentralization, Bitcoin infrastructure tooling	Crypto	n/a	Builder
150	Enigbe OchekliyeLDK Node, Lightning liquidity management, control systems for payment networks, Bitcoin engineering in Africa	Crypto	n/a	Builder
151	Andy FatelyUSDi, inflation-linked digital cash, purchasing power preservation, currency risk management	Modern	n/a	Builder
152	Dan AwreyBeyond Banks, unbundling money from banking, Gresham's new law, safe accounts for non-bank issuers	Modern	n/a	Researcher
153	Saule OmarovaThe People's Ledger, FedAccounts, money as a public franchise, democratizing finance	Modern	1966–	Researcher
154	Peter Van Valkenburghelectronic cash and the Constitution, software is speech, developer protections, limits of the Bank Secrecy Act	Modern	n/a	Researcher
155	Anthony Townsconsensus safety, soft fork activation, Bitcoin Inquisition, peer-to-peer relay design	Crypto	n/a	Builder
156	Timothy Massadstablecoin legislation, digital asset market structure, Eurodollar lessons, payment innovation policy	Modern	1956–	Researcher
157	Cory FieldsBitcoin Core build system, reproducible builds, codebase maintainability, cryptocurrency security hardening	Crypto	n/a	Builder
158	Eswar Prasadthe future of money, central bank digital currencies, stablecoin paradox, dollar trap, financial inclusion	Modern	1965–	Economist
159	Edward Chancellorinterest as the price of time, the everything bubble, capital cycle, history of financial speculation	Modern	1962–	Researcher
160	Seditedlibbitcoinkernel, consensus code modularity, reproducible builds, hardware wallet security	Crypto	n/a	Builder
161	Sam Kazemianfractional-algorithmic stablecoins, flatcoins, Frax Price Index, GENIUS-compliant digital dollars	Crypto	1993–	Builder
162	J Joseph Wangcentral bank plumbing, open market operations, dollar funding markets, money creation mechanics	Modern	n/a	Economist
163	Ben Milnestablecoin issuance as a service, regulated reserve management, open bank-transfer payments, stablecoins for everyone	Crypto	n/a	Builder
164	David Beckworthnominal GDP level targeting, rules-based monetary policy, safe asset shortage, dollar dominance	Modern	n/a	Economist
165	C Charles Cascarillaregulated stablecoin issuance, fully-reserved digital dollars, tokenized settlement, stablecoins inside consumer apps	Crypto	n/a	Builder
166	Nick van EckAUSD digital dollar, white-label stablecoin issuance, full-reserve backing, onchain payments	Crypto	n/a	Builder
167	Scott Sumnermarket monetarism, NGDP level targeting, monetary offset, never reason from a price change	Modern	1955–	Economist
168	Barry Eichengreenexorbitant privilege, dollar dominance, gold standard and the Great Depression, international monetary system	Modern	1952–	Economist
169	Gianluca BenignoDollar's Imperial Circle, global financial resource curse, natural rate of interest, stablecoins and reserve demand	Modern	n/a	Economist
170	Sam Lymanstrategic bitcoin reserve, bitcoin policy research, bitcoin and dollar coexistence, digital asset regulation	Modern	n/a	Researcher
171	Amiti UttarwarBitcoin Core P2P development, transaction rebroadcast privacy, network decentralization, developer sustainability	Crypto	n/a	Builder
172	Abubakar Nur KhalilBitcoin Core development, Btrust developer funding, Qala developer training, African Bitcoin ecosystem, Bitcoin venture capital	Crypto	n/a	Builder
173	NaiyomaBitcoin Core P2P privacy, node tracking resistance, code review culture, African Bitcoin development	Crypto	n/a	Builder
174	Sabina GitauTando, bitcoin-to-M-Pesa payments, Lightning Network, mobile money rails, African bitcoin adoption	Crypto	n/a	Builder
175	NourouBanxaas, Bitcoin Senegal, Dakar Bitcoin Days, mobile money on Lightning, bitcoin education in Wolof	Crypto	n/a	Builder
176	Jorge Jraissatiright to banking, financial exclusion, AML reform, freedom technology, Venezuelan economic collapse	Modern	n/a	Economist
177	Femi LongeBitcoin Development Fund grants, Qala fellowship, Btrust Builders, African developer training, bitcoin under repressive regimes	Crypto	n/a	Builder
178	Sebastián ValdecantosMoneda PAR, blockchain mutual credit, stock-flow consistent models, local monetary sovereignty	Modern	n/a	Economist
179	Ricardo Orzimoneda social, solidarity markets, mutual credit, complementary currencies in Latin America	Modern	n/a	Economist
180	Christoph OnoBitcoin Design Guide, Bitcoin Wallet UI Kit, open design, bitcoin UX	Crypto	n/a	Builder
181	Nik BhatiaLayered money, monetary hierarchy, bitcoin as base-layer money, global liquidity, Bitcoin Age	Crypto	n/a	Researcher
182	Ava ChowPSBT (BIP 174), descriptor wallets, Hardware Wallet Interface, Bitcoin Core maintainership, coin selection	Crypto	n/a	Builder
183	Philippe Van ParijsUniversal basic income, real freedom for all, real-libertarianism, basic income financing, linguistic justice	Modern	1951–	Theorist
184	Michael FordBitcoin Core maintenance, reproducible Guix builds, dependency reduction, build-system security	Crypto	n/a	Builder
185	Hennadii StepanovBitcoin Core maintenance, CMake build system, code review, GUI development	Crypto	n/a	Builder
186	Marc de Basquiatuniversal basic income, negative income tax, LIBER flat-tax funding, tax-benefit simulation	Modern	1966–	Economist
187	Ryan OfskyBitcoin Core process separation, libmultiprocess, node and wallet IPC, long-term maintainability	Crypto	n/a	Builder
188	Adam GibsonCoinJoin liquidity market, JoinMarket, bitcoin fungibility, SNICKER, curve-tree ownership proofs	Crypto	n/a	Builder
189	S Stefano Lucarellimonetary theory of production, monetary sovereignty, complementary currencies, digital social currencies, local clearing unions	Modern	n/a	Economist
190	Matt CoralloLightning Dev Kit, Lightning as an embedded library, Bitcoin Core contribution, open source payment infrastructure, agentic payments	Crypto	n/a	Builder
191	conduitionPost-quantum Bitcoin signatures, MuSig2 implementations, discreet log contracts, scriptless smart contracts, ecash vulnerability disclosure	Crypto	n/a	Builder
192	Maen AlarajCommunity currency circulation, customized communities, currency as a service platforms, digital local currency stagnation, well-being spectrum	Modern	n/a	Researcher
193	A Antoine Riardreplacement cycling attacks, transaction-relay throughput overflow, fee-bumping reserve exhaustion, Lightning channel security, adversarial protocol review	Crypto	n/a	Builder
194	Michael ToutonghiVerusID rent-free identity, multi-currency protocol, MEV-resistant conversions, public blockchains as a service	Crypto	n/a	Builder
195	R RuckniumOSPEAD decoy selection, spy nodes on the peer-to-peer network, transaction-graph privacy, mining pool concentration, statistical protocol research	Crypto	n/a	Researcher
196	Justin BermanFull-Chain Membership Proofs, Carrot addressing, Seraphis wallet library, crowdfunded protocol development, transaction privacy	Crypto	n/a	Builder
197	Danisha Kazicurrency hierarchy, local currency financing, money creation reform, heterodox macroeconomics, Global South debt	Modern	n/a	Economist
198	Kazuhiro Araiexpiring community currency, gift circulation, empathy capital, values-based investing, local merchant networks	Modern	1968–	Builder
199	Simon Youelpublic money, digital pound as a public option, central bank credit allocation, parliamentary oversight of the Bank of England	Modern	n/a	Researcher
200	M Marie Faremonetary plurality, complementary currencies, local currencies and territorial development, monetary commons, socioeconomics of money	Modern	n/a	Economist
201	Oriane Lafuente-Sampietroconvertible local currencies, circulation between member businesses, economic base theory applied to local money, national surveys of French local currencies, mutual credit systems	Modern	n/a	Economist