The Who’s Who of Crypto’s 2022
Spoiler alert: Influence can be for good or for bad. Plus, analyzing SBF’s media apology tour. [reward]4c7edad9-8f7d-49d5-a656-0a5c2d897db7[/reward]
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Most Influential
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Crypto’s Virgil Through the Market Hellscape
Arthur Hayes has been many things to crypto over the years: a builder, a showman and a criminal. This year, as the industry collapsed, he’s been a wise commentator for the inexperienced and perplexed. That’s why he is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.
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Dec 6, 2022 at 1:13 a.m. UTC
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Most Influential Artist: Adam Levine
The artist made a portrait of crypto critic Molly White, and went down the Web3 rabbit hole she opened up.
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Dec 5, 2022 at 3:21 p.m. UTC
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Most Influential Artist: Ravi Vora
The Los Angeles-based photographer captured Gary Vaynerchuk and Vayner3 President Avery Akkineni.
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Dec 5, 2022 at 3:04 p.m. UTC
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Most Influential Artist: Sarah Script
The calligrapher minted an NFT of White House crypto adviser Carole House.
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Dec 5, 2022 at 3:02 p.m. UTC
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The Artist and Technology Behind 36 AI Portraits
How to generate three dozen portraits for the Most Influential 2022 in about a week? Meet Pixelmind.ai, the app that saved this CoinDesk feature from visual ennui.
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Dec 5, 2022 at 2:28 p.m. UTC
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CoinDesk Got Colorful With the Most Influential 2022 NFT Collection
CoinDesk has partnered with 14 truly incredible artists to immortalize on-chain some of the Most Influential 2022, whose NFT portraits will be made available in an exclusive auction being held on Coinbase NFT.
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Dec 5, 2022 at 1:47 p.m. UTC
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Most Influential Artist: Dave Krugman
The photographer captured his portrait of Erick Calderon at a Bright Moments NFT art event in Mexico City.
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Dec 5, 2022 at 1:43 p.m. UTC
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Presenting CoinDesk's Most Influential 2022
Fifty people who defined the year in crypto.
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Dec 5, 2022 at 1:42 p.m. UTC
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Most Influential Artist: Bryan Brinkman
The New York animator tries to display the mystery of Razzlekhan and Lichtenstein, who kicked off this year’s descent into fraud and deception.
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