Edward Snowden (@Snowden) — Twitter Score 588 out of 1000

Edward Snowden is Edward Snowden, an NSA whistleblower and privacy advocate who has become an active Bitcoin and crypto commentator. Edward Snowden works at Freedom of the Press Foundation as a board member, having previously served as its board president from 2016 until late 2022. Edward Snowden's Twitter Score is 588 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026.

Edward Snowden was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2013 with two counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and one count of theft of government property; the charges remain outstanding and he has not been convicted. He fled to Russia and was granted Russian citizenship in 2022. Edward Snowden previously participated in the Zcash trusted setup ceremony in 2016 under the pseudonym "John Dobbertin," one of six participants who generated the cryptographic parameters for its zero-knowledge proof system, receiving no compensation for his involvement.

Edward Snowden auctioned an NFT titled Stay Free in April 2021 for 2,224 ETH (approximately $5.4 million), with all proceeds benefiting the Freedom of the Press Foundation; the winning bidder was PleasrDAO. He delivered a virtual keynote at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, warning that most Bitcoin transactions are traceable and calling on developers to implement privacy at the protocol level. In November 2024, he spoke at the NEAR Redacted conference in Bangkok on digital sovereignty and AI, criticizing heavy VC influence on blockchain projects and describing Solana as "born in prison" due to its VC funding structure. In February 2024, he posted on X predicting that a national government would be revealed to have been secretly buying Bitcoin, framing it as the modern replacement for monetary gold.

Edward Snowden joined the platform in 2014, has accumulated 5,515,992 followers as of October 2026 across 9,723 posts, and holds rank #193 (top 0.1%) out of 498,071 accounts tracked. He has been mentioned by 1,530 accounts, with 4,809 total mentions.

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Edward Snowden's followers span crypto, policy, and privacy-oriented accounts. The accounts that follow Edward Snowden include 2,821 founders, 593 angel investors, 1,201 influencers and 34 VCs, among them Balaji, vitalik.eth, Jack, Nikita Bier, Toly and Sam Altman.