The Ledger 40 under 40 in 2018在今年，只有一份40位40岁以下商界精英排行榜还不够，《财富》杂志又补做了一份榜单，表彰一批在金融和科技界的前沿领域中最出彩的青年超级明星，他们正在给商业带来变革。
这份全球40位40岁以下最具影响力的区块链精英排行榜由《财富》杂志金融报道团队编纂，展示了正在建设全球增长最快的行业的先行者。他们的创新领域包括数字支付、数字加密货币(例如比特币、以太坊)、区块链，等等，这些技术是金融革命的基础。
除了排名前3的阿姆斯特朗、布特林和吴忌寒就不必多加介绍；小编还特为你选出排名第10、12的杜罗夫和丹·拉里莫；只所以选择他们，因为你可能（极小的概率）没有听说过他们的名字，但应该听说过电报网（Telegram）和EOS。个人原因，杜罗夫还是我的校友，我也是他创立的 俄罗斯版微信 VKontakte 的深度用户。
1. Brian Armstrong
CEO and cofounder, Coinbase, 35
Armstrong is building Coinbase, the biggest U.S. Bitcoin exchange,into what his team hopes will become“the Google of crypto”—as relevant to the next wave of the web as Google was to the last. While it has a way to go, it’s on the right track: During this winter’s investment mania, Coinbase catapulted into the mainstream, eclipsing Charles Schwabin total accounts. Now the company is investing in upstarts and making acquisitions—including one that secured it a path to several tantalizing financial licenses.
(Also No. 20 on the main Fortune 40 Under 40 list.)
Brian Armstrong1.布莱恩·阿姆斯特朗
Coinbase联合创始人及首席执行官，35岁
阿姆斯特朗梦想将美国最大的比特币交易所Coinbase打造成“加密货币领域的谷歌”。虽然它离这个目标还有很远，但它的方向显然是正确的。该公司乘着去年冬天的比特币狂潮迅速崛起为一个主流平台，总账户数还超过了嘉信理财。目前，Coinbase正在积极投资创业公司和进行并购，其收购的一家公司即将获批几个高价值的金融许可证。(“财富全球40位40岁以下商界精英”排行榜第20名)
2. Vitalik Buterin
Creator, Ethereum, 24
Buterin describes his open-source blockchain platform Ethereumas a“world computer.” The skinny visionary’s experiment, which began as a white paper, now has a market valuation of about $48 billion, making it the second-most-valuable crypto network next to Bitcoin. Ethereum caught a lucky break this year when the SECsaid it would not regulate Ether, the network’s native coin, as a security. Rumor has it Google recently tried to hire Buterin to lead its own whispered crypto endeavors, but he declined.
（Also No. 22 on the main Fortune 40 Under 40 list.)
Vitalik Buterin2.维塔利克·布特林
以太币创始人，24岁
布特林将他的开源区块链平台以太坊称作一台“世界计算机”。以太坊最初只是这位瘦削青年写的一份白皮书，现在它已坐拥480亿美元估值，成为当今仅次于比特币的第二大数字加密货币平台。美国证监会今年表示将不再对以太币进行监管，因此该平台有望迎来新的重大突破。有传言称，谷歌最近曾想聘请布特林来领导传说中的谷歌数字加密货币部门，但他对此表示否认。(“财富全球40位40岁以下商界精英”排行榜第22名)
3.Jihan Wu
Co-CEO and cofounder, Bitmain, 32
Wu is the undisputed king of cryptocurrency mining hardware and crypto mining pools. His firm Bitmain, based in Beijing, is reportedly valued at $12 billion after a recent round of funding. Wu has been known as a big proponent of Bitcoin Cash, a controversial fork of Bitcoin. Earlier this year, his company led a $110 million financing round for Circle, the crypto startup with the highest valuation in the U.S. Wu told Fortune earlier this year that he’s interested in “stablecoins,” virtual coins that have a fixed price, and that he plans to diversify Bitmain by developing AI chips.
Jihan Wu3.吴忌寒
比特大陆联合创始人及联合首席执行官，32岁
吴忌寒是数字加密货币挖矿硬件和矿池领域无可争议的王者。他的比特大陆公司位于北京，据称在最近一轮融资后，估值已达到120亿美元。据悉，吴忌寒本人也在力挺比特币现金(Bitcoin Cash)。比特币现金是一种颇具争议的比特币分叉@1。今年年初，他的公司向一家名叫Circle的数字加密货币创业公司领投了1.1亿美元的融资，Circle也是在美国估值最高的一家数字加密货币创业公司。吴忌寒在年初曾对《财富》杂志表示，他对一种有固定价格的虚拟货币“稳定币”很感兴趣，他还计划通过研发人工智能芯片来促进比特大陆业务的多元化。
10.Pavel Durov
CEO and cofounder, Telegram, 33
He’s been called the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia,” but it’s time to ditch the epithet and recognize Durov’s achievements in their own right. After having his Facebook clone, VKontakte, the second-most-popular website in Russia, ripped away from him by alleged Kremlin cronies in 2014, Durov focused his efforts on Telegram. The encrypted-chatapp has amassed more than 200 million monthly active users since its founding five years ago. It has even hosted one of the most extravagant“initial coin offerings” to date, raising a reported $1.7 billion in exchange for promised crypto coins. Now Durov, a newly minted billionaire, is fighting bans in Russia and Iran, where government leaders claim Telegram facilitates insurrection.
(Also see No. 25 on the main Fortune 40 Under 40 list.)
Pavel Durov 10.帕沃·杜罗夫
Telegram公司联合创始人及首席执行官，33岁
他又被称为“俄版扎克伯格”。但现在我们必须摒弃这个恽名，承认杜罗夫自身的成就了。自2014年他创办的俄罗斯第二大社交网站、俄版Facebook的VKontakte被所谓“与克里姆林宫关系密切人士强行接管”以来，杜罗夫就把主要精力放在了Telegram上。这款加密聊天应用成立五年来，已积累了超过2亿的月活跃用户。它还搞了一次迄今为止最高调的“首次公开发币”，靠发行虚拟货币募集了17亿美元融资。现在，这位新晋亿万富翁正在跟俄罗斯与伊朗的政府禁令做斗争，因为两国领导人都认为Telegram有助长暴乱的嫌疑。(“财富全球40位40岁以下商界精英”排行榜第25名)
12. Dan Larimer
Chief technology officer, Block.one, 36
Larimer voiced concerns about Bitcoin’s transaction speed to Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s mysterious, pseudonymous creator, as early as 2010. When Nakamoto didn’t bite, the programmer decided to build his own projects addressing the issue. A serial blockchain creator within the cryptosphere, he has helped co-found three separate prominent enterprises, including decentralized exchange Bitshares; blockchain social media firm Steem; and EOS, a platform for decentralized apps, developed by the startup Block.one. In June, EOS raised $4 billion in what is considered the largest initial coin offering ever, while Block.one has won the backing of investors including venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
Dan Larimer 12.丹·拉里莫
Block.one首席技术官，36岁
早在2010年时候，拉里莫就曾向神龙见首不见尾的“比特币之父”中本聪表达过他对比特币交易速度的担忧。既然中本聪没有解决这个问题，拉里莫就决定自己搞一个项目来解决它。拉里莫是区块链领域的一位连续创业人，他曾参与创办过三家知名的区块链企业，分别是去中心化的数字加密货币交易平台Bitshares、区块链社交媒体公司Steem，和由创业公司Block.one开发的去中心化移动应用平台EOS。今年6月，EOS搞了一次史上最大的ICO，通过发币获得了40亿美元融资。而Block.one也获得了彼得·泰尔等知名风投资本家的背书。
@1，其中，中文报道原文为比特币工具，英文原文 fork of Bitcoin，应当翻译成比特币分叉。
参考链接：
The Ledger 40 under 40 http://fortune.com/the-ledger-40-under-40/
2018年全球40位40岁以下最具影响力的区块链精英http://31.toocle.com/detail--7734228.html
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