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7 Santas, 7 Grinches: The heroes and villains of 2024

From blockchain boosters to crypto critics, 2024 highlighted the champions and adversaries shaping the future of digital assets.

As 2024 draws to a close, crypto had a huge year for those who battled both for and against the space. One side championed the tech and wanted to steamroll it forward, while the other side still hasn’t warmed to it or has given crypto a bad rap. 

Here, Cointelegraph highlights its seven crypto-supporting “Santas” and seven “Grinches” that have thrown up roadblocks or bottlenecked the progress of crypto this year.

United States President-elect Donald Trump emerged as an advocate for Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto this year, proposing to make a Bitcoin reserve and promising the US would be the world’s “crypto capital.”

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