Jim.btc (Jim Crane)
Founder of Audionals
Former music producer who pioneered the Audionals protocol on Bitcoin in 2023, creating an on-chain DAW standard focused on executable rights and eliminating intermediaries.
Casey Rodarmor
Creator of Ordinals Protocol
Software engineer who developed the Ordinals protocol, enabling the inscription of arbitrary data onto individual satoshis, effectively creating Bitcoin's native non-fungible layer.
Violetta Zironi
Musician & Early Adopter
Italian singer-songwriter, notable early adopter of Bitcoin Ordinals for music, auctioning her song "n0 0rdinary kind" as a large inscription for 1 BTC.
Ratoshi
Developer & Innovator (Ordinals)
Pseudonymous indie developer known for creating the "Descent Into Darkness Music Engine," one of the first examples of a fully on-chain, interactive music engine using recursive inscriptions on Bitcoin.
Patrick Collins
Web3 Developer & Educator
Prominent developer and educator in the Web3 space. Relevant to Ordinals for demonstrating techniques like `inscriptionJoin` for handling larger media files on-chain by splitting and reassembling them via inscriptions.
Imogen Heap
Artist, Technologist, Founder of Mycelia
Grammy-winning musician and early blockchain advocate. Released music via Ujo Music on Ethereum in 2015 and founded Mycelia to build infrastructure for a fair music ecosystem using blockchain.
RAC (André Anjos)
Producer, DJ, Web3 Pioneer
Grammy-winning artist known for early adoption of Web3. Launched the $RAC social token on Ethereum, experimented heavily with music NFTs, and explored new models for artist-fan engagement.
3LAU (Justin Blau)
DJ, Producer, Founder of Royal
Electronic music artist who made headlines with record-breaking music NFT sales. Co-founded Royal.io, a platform allowing fans to buy fractional ownership in song royalties via NFTs.
Cooper Turley (Cooopahtroopa)
Investor, Advisor, Music NFT Advocate
Influential figure in the Web3 music space, known for investing, advising projects (like Audius, Catalog), writing extensively on music NFTs, and involvement in DAOs like FWB.
