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Charlie Shrem
Built one of the first ways to buy Bitcoin easily.
Known as Charlie ShremActive Jan 2011 →
Why they matter
Shrem built on-ramps when there were almost none, and his story captures Bitcoin's collision with regulation in its first wild years.
Profile
Entrepreneur who co-founded BitInstant (2011), one of the earliest services to make buying Bitcoin simple, and was a founding board member of the Bitcoin Foundation — later imprisoned in connection with Silk Road-linked transactions.