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It’s a new year, and for those of us in the newsroom who spend far too much time hunting tips, charts and RTs on Finance Twitter TWTR, -0.27% that means one thing: time to update our annual list of who to follow.
Our 2016 edition was all about the names that might offer a heads-up on market tumult (remember when we were worried about that?!). For 2017, we put together a comprehensive list that, honestly, still stands for 2018. (A full roundup is available in one Twitter list right here.

) This year.

.. it’s all about crypto.
But before we dive head-first into the blockchain, we’ve been asking you, our readers, for 2018 nominees and a few of you spotted that we were under-representing accounts covering Asia.

Here are a few of your nominees to correct that oversight: Comrade Balding @BaldingsWorld , managing director/chief strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec , and the technical-analysis focused @Sunchartist .
From our newsroom, a few general tips: Author and never-Trumper Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) is an outspoken tweeter on politics with blistering retorts to those who claim their own facts. Check out Bama @Bamabroker if you’re looking for tweets about commodities. Investment advisor Ross Gerber @GerberKawasaki has racked up over 46,000 followers with his market following tweets. ValueWalk ( @valuewalk ) is a good all-arounder on hedge funds and value investing. And may we recommend WSJ Millennials @WizJourn — it’s as perfect as it sounds.
The 30 essential Crypto Twitter accounts to follow Now let’s get down to it: 2017 was the year of the cryptocurrency. You know the story: Bitcoin BTCUSD, -8.

23% exploded onto the scene this year with a 1,400% yearly gain (and plenty of volatility to go along with it). The total crypto market cap now stands at over $554 billion. Social chatter about the new asset class has blown up , and the followings of notable Crypto Twitter accounts have seen, well, crypto-like, 500%+ gains.
On this topic, EVERYONE has a differing opinion ranging from “fraud” to “the future” — and social media is often the place those opinions get aired and debated.

Meanwhile, price moves happen quicker than you can tweet about it. For investors, sorting through the noise ( not to mention the ICO pump and dumps ) to find signals worth listening to is no easy thing.
Are cryptocurrencies a huge bubble, or just getting going? Is ether the next bitcoin? What’s the ideal crypto portfolio? Whatever your position, we hope these accounts will deliver the analysis and commentary you’re looking for in the year to come. (Who did we miss? Tell us in the comments below.

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VIPs and founders
Vitalik Buterin @VitalikButerin — AKA the “boy genius” of crypto — is a co-founder of decentralized cryptocurrency platform Ethereum. He’s Canadian/Russian and in his early twenties… and if you don’t know who he is it’s probably time to read this or this or this . Named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list.

In January of 2017, Buterin had about 40,000 Twitter followers. Today, his following is over 514,000.

*All* crypto communities, ethereum included, should heed these words of warning. Need to differentiate between getting hundreds of billions of dollars of digital paper wealth sloshing around and actually achieving something meaningful for society. https://t.co/aNpEnBNGsA
— Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) December 27, 2017 (For the story behind that tweet, go here.

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Charlie Lee @satoshilite is the creator of Litecoin and the ex-director of engineering at Coinbase. He’s active on Twitter, keeping up with every turn and hard fork in the road. He, too, has seen a massive follower growth in 2017 — from under 30K earlier this year to about 558,000 at latest check. He made headlines back in December for announcing he sold and donated his Litecoin stake to avoid conflicts of interest while overseeing the cryptocurrency’s growth.
I will let you guys in on my little secret.

The reason why I post so much about Bitcoin is to get Bitcoin maximalists to follow me. Then I slowly chip away at their Highlander beliefs one tweet at a time. Before long, they will have bought some LTC and brainwashed. It works. 😜
— Charlie Lee [LTC] (@SatoshiLite) November 15, 2017 Roger Ver @rogerkver claims to be the world’s first investor in bitcoin startups.

He apparently used to be all about bitcoin, and now it’s Bitcoin Cash. Some would call him a little controversial .
I’ll do my best to use https://t.co/ydBxXGyTxU website or in the Satoshi White paper.

#BitcoinCash is that Bitcoin. pic.twitter.

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— Roger Ver (@rogerkver) November 22, 2017 Canadian entrepreneur Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph is another Ethereum co-founder, and founder of a blockchain software production studio called ConsenSys.

Barry Silbert @barrysilbert is the founder/CEO of Digital Currency Group and pink-sheet listed Bitcoin Investment Trust GBTC, -3.75% the world’s first publicly traded bitcoin fund.
This week’s Sunday poll:

Who will be the first to do a 180 and publicly turn bullish on bitcoin?
— Barry Silbert (@barrysilbert) September 24, 2017 Gavin Andresen @gavinandresen was previously lead developer on Bitcoin Core, the original open source software created by Satoshi Nakamoto, and took over maintenance of the code directly from Nakamoto. He’s been called “the man who really built bitcoin,” and has drummed up a fair bit of controversy over the past few years.

His Fortress hedge fund shuttered after heavy losses , but Michael Novogratz @novogratz appears to be trying to reinvent himself as the “king of bitcoin.” If you’re looking for bold, bullish calls..

. you’ve found your guy. (Though that planned bitcoin hedge fund is no longer in the works , for the time being anyway.)
I normally agree with Jamie Dimon but he’s dead wrong on BTC. Blockchain has gone from experiment to implementation.

It’s a revolution.
— Michael Novogratz (@novogratz) September 12, 2017 Andreas Antonopoulos @aantonop has been called a “primary thought-leader and ambassador on bitcoin” by CoinDesk and made their top list of influencers several times over, including a spot at No. 1 in 2014. He literally wrote the book on it (or one of them — “Mastering Bitcoin”) and he’s a frequent crypto conference headliner.

His feed often points to explainers and how-tos on his YouTube channel:
Excited by all-time-highs? Make sure to stop, breathe, & review your storage system. Your keys, your coins! #Bitcoin