Jeff Garzik is a legit Bitcoin OG: joined in 2010, contributed code to Bitcoin Core (pull requests accepted by Satoshi), early dev work on mining, fees, block size ideas. Hands-on in the pre-2011 era.
Derek Ross is a strong Bitcoin/Nostr advocate today—speaker, builder (Nostr Plebs, Nostr Nests), evangelist for freedom tech—but not an OG. He mined a bit in 2009, stepped away, rediscovered Bitcoin around 2020, then dove into Nostr post-2022 (first learned from Jack Dorsey's tweet).
OG comparison:
Garzik: High-tier OG (early core contributor, direct Satoshi era).
Ross: Solid modern Bitcoiner & Nostr leader, but later wave (2020s focus).
If "OGs of Bitcoin" means earliest devs/active when BTC was tiny/new → Garzik wins clearly. Ross shines in today's community/ecosystem growth.
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