Most Influential: Jack Mallers and Nayib Bukele
Bitcoiners don’t cry.If anything, the most committed and focused Bitcoin advocates are usually stereotyped as merciless trolls and self-satisfied jerks, whether they’re making fun of BTC skeptic Peter Schiff or other cryptocurrencies. So it is truly exceptional that the biggest Bitcoin announcement in a year full of them – the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador – was made through a veil of overwhelmed tears.Jack Mallers, the elfin CEO of Bitcoin payments app Strike, was the man with the waterworks. Mallers had helped shepherd the initiative to the finish line over months of meetings with Salvadoran President…