30 Top Cryptocurrency Influencers to Follow

Cryptocurrencies are all the rage these days, with millions of investors flocking to get a piece of the latest investment pie. But most of these same people need to do their research before they buy.

Enter the crypto influencer, a person on social media or in the public eye who can affect the prices of cryptocurrencies (or digital coins), who can persuade people to buy and sell them, or who has a mission to educate the public on digital currencies and blockchain technology. Crypto influencers are also known as crypto gurus. While some influencers use multiple channels, Twitter is the most heavily used platform and where most active conversations occur.

So, if you’re looking for advice on everything crypto, these top 30 cryptocurrency influencers are a good place to start. We even ranked them by the number of followers or subscribers they have on their most popular social media platform.

30. Michael Suppo

No. of followers on Twitter: 96.9K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

* The influencers listed here have made fortunes in digital currencies, but it can be difficult to calculate their net worth or even their actual cryptocurrency holdings because crypto values fluctuate wildly and also because many influencers earn substantial salaries outside of the crypto world. 

Bottom Line: Michael Suppo

Michael Suppo is a self-taught cryptocurrency and social media expert. He calls himself a “cryptocurrency and social media guru” and has become very influential in the crypto-sphere. 

Suppo’s YouTube channel, along with those of several other popular influencers, was removed by YouTube for unknown reasons; however, the company has said it will reinstate these channels. Suppo offers 30 courses in social media management, cryptocurrency investment and advertising on the online classroom Udemy and has more than 360,000 students enrolled. 

29. CryptoWendyO

No. of followers on Twitter: 147.9K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: CryptoWendyO

CryptoWendyO is a rare female influencer in the crypto space. She won’t use her real name in the public space, as she is the frequent target of sexism and online hate. CryptoWendyO maintains popular TikTok and YouTube channels, and a SubStack newsletter, where she educates novice investors about the risks and benefits of investing in cryptocurrencies. 

Almost half of her audience are women who have few role models in the blockchain-sphere. CrytoWendyO now works as a trader, investor and consultant. Unlike some crypto gurus, all her media channels are free.

28. Garry Tan

No. of followers on Twitter: 180.2K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: $225 million

Bottom Line: Garry Tan

Garry Tan is an engineer, designer and investor. He has worked for Palantir Technology, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. After selling a startup, Tan founded Initialized Capital, an early-stage tech venture capital firm. 

His company funded Coinbase and Instacart, among others. Tan is ranked No. 35 on Forbes Midas List of investors with a golden touch. He also maintains a YouTube channel where he posts videos about cryptocurrency startups, tech and investing.

27. Tone Vays

No. of followers on Twitter: 246.3K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Tone Vays

Tone Vays is a derivatives trader and financial analyst. He worked on Wall Street in standard finance for 10 years before discovering Bitcoin. He decided to switch to educating people about blockchain and digital currencies. 

Vays has appeared in several documentaries about cryptocurrencies and hosts three annual conferences for traders and hedge fund managers: Unconfiscatable, Understanding Bitcoin and The Financial Summit. He currently hosts the @Crypto_Scam podcast to alert people to the many scams out in the world around cryptocurrencies. 

26. Wolf of Bitcoins

No. of followers on TikTok: 249.1K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Wolf of Bitcoins

The Wolf of Bitcoins is a Canadian influencer who prefers to stay completely anonymous. He doesn’t post a photo of himself on his social media and uses an Anonymous mask in his videos. 

The Wolf started building a following on Instagram but moved to TikTok when he couldn’t find any other Bitcoin channels. He posts about Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, mining (generating digital currency) and gaming. 

25. Ran Neuner

No. of followers on Twitter: 257.9K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Ran Neuner

South African Ran Neuner has an academic and career background in finance. He founded one of Africa’s top advertising and marketing agencies, Creative Counsel, which he later sold for $150 million. 

Neuner discovered Bitcoin in 2013 and switched his focus to blockchain and digital currencies. He currently hosts a TV show, “Crypto Trader,” on CNBC Africa. Neuner also hosts a popular online radio and talk show on cryptocurrencies, called Crypto Banter.  

24. Crypto Cred

No. of followers on Twitter: 321K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Crypto Cred

Crypto Cred is an English (or London-based) financial trader and analyst who offers highly detailed analysis of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies under a pseudonym. 

He has a popular YouTube channel with 84,400 subscribers in which he offers technical analysis charts for Bitcoin’s rise and fall.

23. Adam Back

No. of followers on Twitter: 332.4K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Adam Back

Adam Back is a British inventor and cryptographer. His website, in fact, looks an awful lot like a technical manual. Back is famous for inventing the “hashcash,” an algorithm that is used to generate (or mine) Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamura, the alleged developer of Bitcoin, quoted Back’s work in his Bitcoin white paper. 

Many people believe that Back may actually be the legendary and reclusive Nakamura, whose real identity is not known. Back is also a co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, which provides commercial Bitcoin blockchain technology services.

22. Max Keiser

No. of followers on Twitter: 350.3K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: $250 million

Bottom Line: Max Keiser

Max Keiser is a financial TV journalist and investor. He started out working in theater and radio but realised these careers didn’t pay well. After taking a part-time job as a stockbroker, Keiser became interested in financial markets. 

He is now a passionate advocate of digital currencies and started buying Bitcoin when it was $1. Keiser has hosted a number of TV shows on business and financial markets and currently has his own show, “Keiser Report,” on the Russia Today network.

21. Nicholas Merten

No. of followers on YouTube: 462K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Nicholas Merten

Nicholas Merten had an eight-year career as a financial analyst before switching over to digital currencies. He maintains the popular and largest YouTube channel in the crypto space, called DataDash. Merten also publishes a monthly newsletter, “The Dash Report”. 

He recently set up a financial platform, called Digifox, that allows people to receive their standard paychecks as digital currency, a platform to buy and sell crypto, a wallet to store digital assets and earn interest on their digital coins.

20. Ivan Liljeqvist

No. of followers on YouTube: 470K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Ivan Liljeqvist

Ivan Liljeqvist is a Swedish software developer, data scientist and blockchain advocate. He previously worked for a number of tech companies as a software developer, including technology and telecommunications company Ericsson. Liljeqvist is best known for his popular YouTube channel, Tech Blockchain Academy, where he explains blockchains and digital currencies in simple terms for a wide audience. 

He also has 279,500 followers on Twitter and a popular podcast. Liljeqvist is a keen philanthropist in the digital space, making large donations to educational and tech startups.

19. Erik Voorhees

No. of followers on Twitter: 502.4K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Erik Voorhees

Erik Voorhees is a crypto entrepreneur and start-up developer. After graduating from college, he worked as  a communications manager, project lead and head of marketing for several companies, including BitInstant. He is the CEO of ShapeShift, a digital asset marketplace. Voorhees also set up the crypto gambling site, SatoshiDICE, which he later sold. 

Voorhees is known for speaking out against taxation and financial regulation by governments. He also maintains a popular channel on Medium, where he writes about cryptocurrencies. Voorhees claims he keeps 85 perccent of his net worth in Bitcoin, but his assets are unknown.

18. Charles Hoskinson

No. of followers on Twitter: 528.7K

Estimated crypto holdings: About $500 million

Estimated net worth: $500 million

Bottom Line: Charles Hoskinson

Charles Hoskinson is a technology entrepreneur and mathematician. He studied number theory and mathematical logic before moving into cryptography. He was a co-founder of the Ethereum platform and coin. 

Hoskinson went on to set up the popular digital currency platform and coin Cardano and the Cryptocurrency Research Group. He has also started consultancy IOHK, that sets up blockchains for corporate, education and government clients. 

17. Peter Brandt

No. of followers on Twitter: 538.2K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Peter Brandt

Peter Brandt has been a commodities and futures trader since 1975. He formerly handled large corporate accounts for companies such as Swanson Foods and Homestake Mining. Brandt’s book on trading commodity futures is considered a classic in the field. 

In 2011, Brandt was named as one of the 30 most influential people in finance. He is the CEO of Factor LLC, a global trading firm. Brandt embraced digital currencies Bitcoin and Ethereum as the financial future, and these two are one of his top 10 trading markets.

16. Barry Silbert

No. of followers on Twitter: 546.6K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: $1.6 billion

Bottom Line: Barry Silbert

Barry Silbert is an investor and entrepreneur. He had a conventional business and finance career as a trader and investor before he discovered digital currencies. He started to invest when Bitcoin was still relatively unknown outside tech circles, around 2012, and was an early advocate for cryptocurrencies and blockchains. 

Silbert is one of the top five holders of Bitcoin. He is also a co-founder of the Digital Currency Group and set up the first Bitcoin investment trust. Silbert was an early investor in Greyscale, the Ethereum investment platform, Coinbase and others. 

15. Cameron Winklevoss

No. of followers on Twitter: 555.1K

Estimated crypto holdings: $1 billion (varies)

Estimated net worth: $3 billion

Bottom Line: Cameron Winklevoss

Just like his twin brother, Cameron Winklevoss is a former Olympic rower, entrepreneur and crypto billionaire. The pair are believed to hold 1 percent of all Bitcoin, which puts their shared crypto assets at around $1 billion (varies). They bought the coins with part of their settlement from a lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. 

The brothers also founded the Gemini digital currency exchange and Winklevoss Capital Investment. They started the Gemini Green Fund to reduce Bitcoin’s massive carbon footprint.

14. Ben Horowitz

No. of followers on Twitter: 564.5K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: $3.5 billion

Bottom Line: Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz is a businessman, investor, blogger and author. He worked at Hewlett-Packard, Netscape and co-founded Opsware before moving into venture capital. Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner at the investment firm, Andreessen Horowitz, best known for their huge payout with Coinbase. 

He blogs on Medium about business, company culture, investment and crypto. Horowitz has also written several best-selling books about building a company and business culture. He is ranked No. 38 on Forbes Midas List of investors with the golden touch. 

13. Chris Dixon

No. of followers on Twitter: 582.6 K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Chris Dixon

Chris Dixon is a partner in the venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz. He recently made No. 7 on Forbes’ Midas List of investors and venture capitalists who have the golden touch for investing. Dixon steered his company into investing in the crypto trading platform, Coinbase, which was recently valued at $100 billion. 

Dixon is a big supporter of blockchain technologies and crypto networks. He co-founded SiteAdvisor and Hunch, an online recommendation site that eBay bought in 2011. Dixon also maintains a popular blog called cdixon.

12. Willy Woo

No. of followers on Twitter: 589.8K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: $10 million

Bottom Line: Willy Woo

New Zealander Willy Woo is a financial analyst and trader. He ran several start-ups, including Hypersheet, a simple, easy-to-use coding platform for beginners. Woo first heard about Bitcoin in the startup world in 2013 when the coin was still trading for as low as $50. 

He started out writing about blockchain and cryptocurrencies for Forbes and Coinbase. Woo is considered one of the top Bitcoin analysts. He maintains a subscription-only SubStack newsletter called “The Bitcoin Forecast.”

11. Joel Comm

No. of followers on Twitter: 672.5K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: $12 million

Bottom Line: Joel Comm

Joel Comm is an author, podcaster and consultant who specializes in internet marketing, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. He was also the CEO of social media consulting firm, InfoMedia. 

Comm maintains a popular podcast, called “The Bad Crypto Podcast,” and a companion blog. His podcast is one of the top crypto-related shows, with 400,000-plus downloads monthly. Comm has written 15 books, including New York Times best sellers, and contributes to Forbes, Entrepreneur and The New York Times. 

10. Fred Wilson

No. of followers on Twitter: 678.7K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: $100 million

Bottom Line: Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson is a general partner in Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm. He made it onto this year’s Forbes Midas List for investors with a golden touch (at No. 57) due to his firm’s investment in the cryptocurrency marketplace, Coinbase, which is valued at over $100 billion. WIlson also invested in Twitter, Etsy and Tumblr. 

He maintains a popular blog, AVC, in which he writes about investing, cryptocurrencies, blockchain and other topics. Wilson is also known as a generous and active philanthropist and sits on the board of DonorsChoose.org.

9. Brian Armstrong

No. of followers on Twitter: 718.5K

Estimated crypto holdings: $900 million to $1 billion

Estimated net worth: $11.5 billion

Bottom Line: Brian Armstrong

Brian Armstrong started his career at Deloitte and worked as a software engineer at Airbnb. He is now the CEO and co-founder of the popular and successful crypto marketplace, Coinbase. The company recently went public and is valued at $100 billion. 

Armstrong holds a 19 percent share in the company, which has increased his net worth by at least $2 billion in the last few years. Armstrong is also the co-founder of the Give Crypto Foundation, a charitable organization that shares crypto with people living in poverty who don’t have bank accounts.

8. Roger Ver

No. of followers on Twitter: 733.1K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: About $500 million

Bottom Line: Roger Ver

Roger Ver is a tech entrepreneur and investor. He founded Memory Dealers, which makes memory modules, when he was 19, and later Agilestar, which makes optical transceivers. Ver was an early proponent of Bitcoin in 2011 and an early investor in blockchain technologies, including Ripple and Zcash. Memory Dealers was the first company to accept Bitcoin payments.

Ver set up Blockchain.com and Bitcoin.com, online wallets and newsletters for crypto enthusiasts. As Ver was an early and influential advocate of Bitcoin, he’s often called the “Bitcoin Jesus.”

7. Tyler Winklevoss

No. of followers on Twitter: 795.6K

Estimated crypto holdings: $1 billion (varies)

Estimated net worth: $3 billion

Bottom Line: Tyler Winklevoss

As previously mentioned, Tyler and his twin brother Cameron are believed to hold 1 percent of all Bitcoin, which puts their shared crypto assets at around $1 billion (varies). 

Like his brother, Tyler’s accomplishments include starting the Gemini digital currency exchange and Winklevoss Capital Investment as well as the Gemini Green Fund to buy credits to reduce the carbon footprint of Bitcoin mining and transactions. 

6. Charlie Lee

No. of followers on Twitter: 990.3K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: $10 million (estimated)

Bottom Line: Charlie Lee

Charlie Lee earned his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from MIT. After graduation, he worked for tech companies such as Google and Guidewire Software. Lee learned about Bitcoin in 2011 and decided to set up his own crypto coin, Litecoin, based on the same computer code that Bitcoin developers had used. He then went to work for Coinbase, the online platform that trades and stores digital currencies. 

Lee now works full-time on his Litecoin platform. To avoid any conflict of interest, he sold all his Litecoins but likely has retained his Bitcoin holdings.

5. Anthony Pompliano

No. of followers on Twitter: 998.6K

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Anthony Pompliano

Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano is a businessman and venture capitalist who has been a big advocate for cryptocurrencies before they came to popular attention. He formerly led a Growth Team at Facebook and was responsible for innovations such as AMBER Alerts and Voter Registration on the site. Pomp also co-founded Full Tilt Capital, a venture capital firm, and Morgan Creek Digital Assets. 

He now writes a daily investment newsletter that has more than 180,000 subscribers and has a popular podcast about crypto investing. Pomp also maintains a YouTube channel with 175,000 subscribers.

4. Vitalik Buterin

No. of followers on Twitter : 2.1 million

Estimated crypto holdings: About $500 million

Estimated net worth: $21 billion

Bottom Line: Vitalik Buterin

Russian/Canadian Vitalik Buterin is best known for co-founding the world’s second most valuable digital coin, Ethereum. He became interested in cryptocurrencies as a teenager and launched Bitcoin Magazine. Buterin was enrolled at university studying programming and cryptography, when he was awarded a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship, an award set up by venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel to encourage promising tech entrepreneurs. 

Buterin has tweeted that global poverty eradication is an important issue to him, and he recently donated $1 billion in cryptocurrencies to a COVID-19 relief fund for India.

3. Ben Armstrong

No. of followers on TikTok: 2.7 million

Estimated crypto holdings: $10 million

Estimated net worth: Unknown

Bottom Line: Ben Armstrong

Ben Armstrong goes by the name of BitBoy Crypto. He runs popular channels on both TikTok and YouTube about investing in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Armstrong also runs a website called Bit Boy Crypto. He started out writing about cryptocurrencies, and Bitcoin in particular, and is now considered one of the leading blockchain experts. 

He started buying Bitcoin in 2012 when it was about $13 a coin. While Armstrong won’t reveal his exact net worth, he did share a screenshot in 2020 showing that he held over $10 million (at that time) in crypto coins.

2. Justin Sun

No. of followers on Twitter: 2.9 million

Estimated crypto holdings: Unknown

Estimated net worth: $200 million

Bottom Line: Justin Sun

Justin Sun is a Chinese businessman and tech entrepreneur. He graduated from Hupan University, a business school established by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Sun started his tech career as an advisor to Ripple Labs and later set up the blockchain protocol (and coin) TRON and bought the file-sharing protocol BitTorrent.  

He recently tweeted that he had bought $153 million in Bitcoin and $135 million in Ethereum, but the full extent of his crypto assets is unknown. Sun is also known for spending $4.57 million in a charity auction to have lunch with investor Warren Buffett. 

1. Elon Musk

No. of followers on Twitter: 57.3 million

Estimated crypto holdings: $1.33 billion (varies)

Estimated net worth: $68 billion

Bottom Line: Elon Musk

Elon Musk is the billionaire founder and CEO of electric car company, Tesla. He’s also the founder of SpaceX, a private space exploration company. Musk’s other companies include Neuralink, an artificial intelligence (AI) research firm, and The Boring Company, which makes tunnels. Tesla was an early adopter of accepting Bitcoin as payment. 

Musk claims he doesn’t buy cryptocurrency himself — even though his Tesla company holds about $1 billion in Bitcoin — however, Musk’s tweets about Bitcoin and the alt coin Doge are held responsible for price spikes and falls.