Pavol Rusnak is a cypherpunk and Bitcoin security engineer who co-founded SatoshiLabs and helped create Trezor, widely regarded as the world's first cryptocurrency hardware wallet. Pavol Rusnak's Twitter Score is 93 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #8,111 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Pavol Rusnak, also known by the nickname "Stick," has co-founded several open-source hardware and software ventures alongside SatoshiLabs and Trezor, including Tropic Square, Vexl, and Invity. He also serves as a board member of the Vexl Foundation. His work is guided by a stated mission of strengthening individual power and independence through open-source software and hardware.
Pavol Rusnak has made significant technical contributions to the Bitcoin protocol as the author of BIP 39, BIP 43, BIP 44, and BIP 84, a set of Bitcoin Improvement Proposals that underpin widely used standards for wallet interoperability and key derivation. He publicly identifies as a cypherpunk and Bitcoin advocate. Pavol Rusnak's account has 23,887 followers as of October 2026 and 7,213 posts, and has been mentioned by 131 accounts a total of 301 times.
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