El Flaco is a Bitcoin and Lightning developer, writer, and contributor who works at Blink, authoring technical content and research on Bitcoin payments and merchant adoption. El Flaco's Twitter Score is 33 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #29,224 (top 10%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
El Flaco has authored multiple articles for Blink covering its custodial Bitcoin and Lightning wallet, including explanations of its security and custody model, as well as the announcement of a plugin connecting Blink accounts to BTCPay Server for Lightning payments. Beyond writing, El Flaco contributed to the open-source merchant-adoption work documented in the BTCPay Server and Blink Bitcoin Atlantis point-of-sale case study, and is listed as a contributor to BTCPay Server.
El Flaco co-presented a session titled "Building Apps with the Blink API" at BTC Prague's dev/hack/day in June 2024, reflecting hands-on involvement in developer education around the Blink API. On GitHub, El Flaco publishes Bitcoin and Lightning development material, including L402 middleware built on the Blink API. El Flaco also authored a Fulmo essay arguing that Bitcoin's security is tied to its status as free and open-source software, and has continued publishing Blink's Bitcoin-payments and merchant-adoption research briefs into 2026. El Flaco's account has 5,468 followers as of September 2026 and 28,993 posts, and has been mentioned by 49 accounts a total of 95 times.
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