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Most Influential 2021: Willy Woo
For building a 21st century media empire.
By CoinDesk
Updated May 11, 2023, 5:16 p.m. Published Dec 7, 2021, 2:08 p.m.
Willy Woo, New Zealand native living in Hong Kong, has built a 21st century media empire. It runs primarily on Twitter, Telegram and Substack, a newsletter platform, where he helps readers divine bitcoin’s price fluctuations using on-chain data. His newsletter, “The Bitcoin Forecast,” routinely tops Substack’s leaderboard and his tweets sometimes break news from China’s crypto industry. But like all news on social media, it’s worth taking his predictions with a grain of salt.
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