Thor Halvorssen is a human rights advocate who founded the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum, championing Bitcoin as a tool for activists living under authoritarian rule. Thor Halvorssen's Twitter Score is 21 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #45,968 (top 10%) among 486,573 tracked accounts.
Thor Halvorssen founded the Human Rights Foundation and serves as its CEO, a role through which he has positioned Bitcoin and related privacy technologies as instruments of political freedom. He also founded the Oslo Freedom Forum and co-founded the Moving Picture Institute. Earlier in his career, he served as CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, departing that role in 2004.
Thor Halvorssen wrote in 2017 that Bitcoin, blockchain, encrypted communications, and privacy software could meaningfully support activists operating under repressive governments. The Human Rights Foundation has worked with Bitcoin since 2013, including early efforts to help Ukrainian activists learn how to use it. On June 11, 2020, under his leadership, the foundation launched its Bitcoin Development Fund to support open-source developers focused on making Bitcoin more private, decentralized, and accessible to those facing censorship. That fund remains active. Thor Halvorssen's account has 32,906 followers as of September 2026 and 7,171 posts, and has been mentioned by 26 accounts, with 114 total mentions.
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