Andreas Markos Antonopoulos[2] (born 1972 in London) is a British-Greek[3][4] Bitcoin advocate, tech entrepreneur, and author.

[7] Antonopoulos was born in 1972 in London, UK,[3] and moved to Athens, Greece during the Greek Junta.

[citation needed] Antonopoulos obtained his degrees in Computer science and Data Communications, Networks and Distributed Systems from University College London.

The fundraiser, intended to assist Nakamoto after the attention he received as a result of the article, raised 50 bitcoins, worth US$23,000 at the time.

[19] In December 2017, unsolicited donations of over 100 bitcoins were sent to Antonopoulos by over a thousand followers of his work, after Roger Ver made a public post to Twitter on 5 December questioning Antonopoulos's investment choices given his "eloquent" public speaking about bitcoin since 2012.