Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) — Twitter Score 97 out of 1000

Patrick Byrne is a blockchain entrepreneur who founded Overstock.com and later resigned as its chief executive in August 2019. Patrick Byrne's Twitter Score is 97 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #8,476 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.

Patrick Byrne founded Overstock.com and led it to become the first major online retailer to accept Bitcoin, a milestone reached in January 2014. That same year, he founded Medici Ventures as Overstock.com's blockchain-focused subsidiary. He also previously served as chairman of tZERO, a tokenized-capital-markets platform that originated as an Overstock.com subsidiary, where he announced a planned security-token offering in October 2017. The tZERO offering closed in August 2018, with its Preferred Equity Tokens, Series A, known as TZROP, issued in October 2018. Byrne is no longer listed in tZERO's current leadership.

Patrick Byrne was named as a defendant in a securities-fraud class action related to Overstock's digital-security dividend and tZERO. The U.S. District Court for the District of Utah dismissed the amended claims with prejudice on September 20, 2021. Separately, Overstock disclosed that the SEC Division of Enforcement opened an investigation concerning tZERO and its security-token offering and requested communications involving Byrne, though the filing did not state that he had been charged. Patrick Byrne's account has published 32,834 posts and has been mentioned by 40 accounts a total of 75 times.

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