You . You . You . voted tweeted hacked the platform and cheated The Noonies—the tech industry's greenest awards; built by Hacker Noon in partnership with Stream —was conceptualized to recognize the best and worst peoples and products of the internets, in 2019 and beyond. With over — — we're extremely excited to announce the winners of these prestigious awards - 55,000 votes cast for 457 Noonies nominees across 50 awards categories, only two of which were compromised by inauthentic voting behaviour! "The Noonies! Much thanks to the community for taking the time to cast 50k+ votes, determining the Hacker Noon award winners," said David Smooke. "It was fun. Great to see the community make their cases for their favorite Noonie nominees. Overall, we're also excited that we got our feet wet in custom voting technology. We look forward to contributing more to how the internet curates, ranks and distributes content." And the 2019 Noonies Winners Are... GENERAL TECH: Product Manager of the Year 🥇 Vindhya C 🥈 Timoté Geimer 🥉 Marija Cvjetkovic Best Tech News Source 🥇 Twitter 🥈 Hacker News 🥉 Reddit The World's Most Productive Remote Team 🥇 GitLab 🥈 Buffer 🥉 Knack Best Use of Tech for Good DADI FOUNDATION - harnessing tech to empower the most marginalised, ensuring fair access to technology and supporting robust and inclusive democracies 🥇 UPEFFECT - improving access to funding for entrepreneurs  on the right side of history 🥈 MORELIFE - (where more = better well-being + extended life) 🥉 The Bait & Switch Award Medium's Paywall 🥇 Facebook's Libra 🥈 Apple's Butterfly Switch Keyboards 🥉 [ Votes Hacked ] Most Exciting Startup PASSBASE - seamless, bank-level identity verification integration into your website, app, or checkout with just a few lines of code 🥇 LOOXIE - lets you request photos from specific locations: just drop a pin on the map or search for a point of interest 🥈 CARBON - buying cryptocurrency has never been this easy 🥉 Hacker of the Year 🥇 Thomas 🥈 Arthur Tkachenko 🥉 Nirav Contributing Writer of the Year 🥇 Patrick Lee Scott 🥈 Andrey Sergeenkov 🥉 sudhanshu kumar Technology Writer of the Year 🥇 Ashan Fernando 🥈 Riz Virk 🥉 Arthur Tkachenko AI Writer of the Year 🥇 Adrien Book 🥈 Akash Deep 🥉 Tony Aubé Most Over-Hyped Technology Blockchain 🥇 AI 🥈 VR 🥉 Cybersecurity Writer of the Year 🥇 Han Yoon 🥈 Aaron Gershwin 🥉 Alice Henshaw Best AMA (ask-me-anything) award 🥇 Carlos Domingo 🥈 Jean-Loïck Michaux (JLO) 🥉 Taylor Monahan [ Votes Hacked ] Social Network of the Year Steemit 🥇 gab 🥈 Narrative - The World's Journal 🥉 Most Valuable Chatbot Framework Chatbots by PubNub 🥇 LivePerson 🥈 Rasa 🥉 2 or 3 Under 20-ish Awards 🥇 Sergio Mattei, founder of Makerlog 🥈 Ives van Hoorne, creator of CodeSandbox 🥉 Rachel Zietz, founder of Gladiator Lacrosse White Hat of the Year 🥇 Alice Henshaw 🥈 Georgios Konstantopoulos 🥉 Nick Seneca Jankel 60 Over 60 Awards 🥇 Tim Berners-Lee 🥈 Richard Stallman 🥉 Guido van Rossum VC Twitter's MVP 🥇 @alexiskold 🥈 @naval 🥉 @garrytan CRYPTO/BLOCKCHAIN: Most Hardcore Bitcoin Maximalist Pierre Rochard 🥇 Hodlonaut 🥈 Francis Pouliot 🥉 Most crypto-friendly Jurisdiction Award Malta 🥇 The Zug, Switzerland 🥈 Estonia 🥉 Crypto-Name Drop of the Year Silicon Valley's story arc 🥇 Eminem's Kamikaze Album 🥈 Forbes' coverage of Bitcoin 🥉 Second-Best Crypto Publication on Earth John McAfee's Twitter Feed 🥇 Coindesk 🥈 CCN 🥉 Crypto-Buzzword of the Year Bitcoin Maximalist 🥇 Crypto-Winter 🥈 DeFi 🥉 Defining Crypto-Moment of the Year Facebook Announces Libra 🥇 Binance gets Hacked 🥈 Crypto-Exchanges start conducting 10+ IEOs daily 🥉 Crypto-Dud of the Year Civil 🥇 Sparkster 🥈 The All-About-PR Award aELF 🥇 VeID 🥈 Best Blockchain Award Bitcoin 🥇 Ethereum 🥈 EOS 🥉 Blockchain of the Year Award Ethereum 🥇 EOS 🥈 Bitcoin 🥉 The best crypto magazine 🥇 CryptoSlate 🥈 Coindesk 🥉 Cointelegraph Best crypto analysts 🥇 Plan B Kazonomics 🥈 🥉 Willy woo The Zero Factor Authentication Award for Achievement un Security MountGox2 🥇 Binance 🥈 Bitfinex 🥉 Best Crypto Rap Song 🥇 Bitcoin Rap Gucci Gang - HODL Gang 🥈 EDCON 2019 - Vitalik Rap 🥉 Team Hodl - Lambo Land The best bitcoin Shiller 🥇 Anthony Pompliano 🥈 John McAffee (Good Old John) 🥉 Jack Dorsey The Cutest Crypto Kitty 🥇 SirMeowsalot 🥈 Lilbubthemagicalspacecat 🥉 Felono The Best White Paper Bitcoin 🥇 EOS 🥈 Ethereum 🥉 Most Mind-blowing Bitcoin Story 🥇 Bitcoin’s Biggest Hack In History: 184.4 Billion Bitcoin from Thin Air; Satoshi Hard Forks, Saves Bitcoin," by Charlie Shrem " 🥈 Why the Price of Bitcoin Doesn't Matter," by Beautyon33 " 🥉 Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply," by StopAndDecrypt #CryptoTwitter's MVP 🥇 @hodlonaut 🥈 @aantonop 🥉 @BullyEsq SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Developer Tool Buzz of Year GraphQL 🥇 React Hooks 🥈 GatsbyJS 🥉 CMS You Can't Live Without Flamelink 🥇 ButterCMS 🥈 Strapi 🥉 Personal Developer Blog of the Year 🥇 Overreacted 🥈 Ahmad Awais 🥉 Tania Rascia Best Developer on Twitter 🥇 @iamdevloper 🥈 @dan_abramov 🥉 @jaffathecake Best JAMstack React 🥇 Serverless Framework 🥈 🥉 freecodecamp.org Best Dev Podcast 🥇 The Bike Shed 🥈 Syntax.fm 🥉 Soft Skills Engineering Top Dev Teacher 🥇 Wes Bos 🥈 Scott Tolinski 🥉 Will Sentance Best Open Source Project 🥇 VS Code 🥈 React 🥉 Vue.js Best Dev Community 🥇 Dev.to 🥈 Github 🥉 Makerlog Best Open Startup 🥇 Nomadlist 🥈 Alan 🥉 Upscribe Most Promising Fintech 🥇 Robinhood 🥈 Acorns 🥉 Monzo Thank YOU to all the members who took part in Hacker Noon's first annual awards—the Noonies 2019. Hacker Noon community With a special shoutout to our awesome sponsor, Stream.io . Stream builds scalable feeds, activity streams & chat; and their simple, powerful APIs are used by some of the largest and most popular apps. We're looking forward to an even bigger and better Noonies next year. Back to the Internet, The Hacker Noon Editorial Team 🔏

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