Cointelegraph’s Top 10 in blockchain are here, but why should anyone care?

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Have you ever compiled a ranked list? Perhaps the best movies about finance, your favorite wineries in France, the coolest bars in your city, or simply the people you want to grab a coffee with while in New York City for only two days? If so, I think you will agree with me: It may be extremely fun, but it is also extremely difficult. And the more contenders you plan to feature, the more difficult it is to establish an order that satisfies you.

Now, imagine that you are compiling this list not alone but in discussion with dozens of your colleagues, every one of whom has an opinion you greatly appreciate. Then comes the moment in which you start repenting for ever asking for anyone’s opinion, as it is technically impossible to include everyone’s take. Moreover, you have to update the list at least 20 times — or maybe even more — because we work in an industry where the speed at which success stories are made would make Usain Bolt envious.

The ordeal was even more challenging for me because it was the third time I worked on it with the Cointelegraph team. At some point, you realize that 100 entries are just not enough to include everyone you want to praise or mention, and you start having nightmares where last year’s awardees come to request their spot this year. (In my dreams, they looked like the statue of the Commendatore from Don Giovanni, I guess as a tribute to the Top 100 2021’s visual theme of cosmic marble busts.)

DISCOVER COINTELEGRAPH’S TOP 100 IN CRYPTO AND BLOCKCHAIN 2022

The list of the most influential figures in blockchain presented this year by Cointelegraph’s editorial team was, as usual, highly subjective and in many ways spontaneous, but also the result of a long series of chess moves, with the combinations