No, not Adam. I remember reading Adam's Hashcash paper back in 2003 or so, excited for how it might lead to cryptocurrency, but he was completely uninterested in the topic. Apparently Satoshi tried to get him involved early on, and Adam ignored him. My understanding is that he was pretty rude to anyone who tried talking to him about Bitcoin.

It wasn't until Bitcoin went over 1000 dollars that Adam finally realized he could cash in on the reference to his paper. That was when he finally got involved, founding Blockstream, hinting towards people that he was more involved with the early project. He hired up a bunch of Bitcoin devs, and basically ruined the network for everyone, trying to pivot everyone heavily towards Lightning so they could extract fees to pay back investors.

Kleiman seems like an obvious top contender in my opinion.

https://gizmodo.com/the-strange-life-and-death-of-dave-kleim...