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Most Influential 2021: Ryan Selkis
Messari’s CEO was a force behind crypto’s political awakening this year.
By CoinDesk
Updated May 11, 2023, 6:26 p.m. Published Dec 9, 2021, 9:36 p.m.
Messari CEO Ryan Selkis is boisterous and sometimes brash, but few are as informed. Perhaps this is because of his institution-grade data firm, which covers the industry like no other, or because Selkis still blogs most days about the crypto things that caught his eye. These Two-Bit Idiot “Unqualified Opinions” have sway.
Selkis was a major voice behind crypto’s political awakening this year and fight against the harmful provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Selkis delivers (take the Consensus-like crypto conference Mainnet), but his Senate run ambitions (probably just Twitter-talk) look to be on hold. For now.
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