Andreas Aantonop Team is the account of Andreas M. Antonopoulos, a Bitcoin educator, author, and public speaker who founded aantonop and has been a Bitcoin advocate since 2012. The account is now managed by his team following a March 2026 announcement that he is pausing all new content creation and live Q&A sessions due to severe migraines with no effective treatment, with his existing video catalog and books remaining accessible. Andreas Aantonop Team's Twitter Score is 618 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, with 781,771 followers and a ranking of #162 out of 531,432 accounts tracked on this platform. Andreas Aantonop Team ranks #162 (top 0.1%) out of 531,432 tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
Andreas Aantonop Team's content spans Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the Lightning Network. Andreas has authored six books on Bitcoin and open blockchains, including Mastering Bitcoin (with a third edition co-authored with David A. Harding), The Internet of Money (Volumes 1 through 3), Mastering Ethereum, and Mastering the Lightning Network (co-authored with Olaoluwa Osuntokun and René Pickhardt), collectively translated into 14 languages. He is a Teaching Fellow at University of Nicosia in the M.Sc. Digital Currencies program. He previously served as Chief Security Officer at Blockchain.info, during which the company grew to serve 2 million wallet accounts, and was formerly a Board Advisor there. He was previously a member of the Bitcoin Foundation's Anti-Poverty Committee, resigning in July 2014 citing a complete lack of transparency in the organisation's management.
Andreas Aantonop Team has produced over 600 free educational videos on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the Lightning Network, and Andreas is credited with popularizing the Bitcoin security mantra "not your keys, not your coins." He previously co-hosted Speaking of Bitcoin (formerly Let's Talk Bitcoin!) alongside Dr. Stephanie Murphy, Adam B. Levine, and Jonathan Mohan for more than 400 episodes before the podcast ended in 2022, and currently hosts the Unscrypted Podcast. He testified as an expert witness before Canada's Senate Banking, Trade and Commerce Committee on Bitcoin regulation in October 2014, and before the Australian Senate Banking Committee. In April 2014, he organised a community fundraising campaign for Dorian Nakamoto, raising 50 BTC, approximately $23,000 at the time. In December 2017, he received more than 100 BTC in unsolicited donations from thousands of supporters, reported at approximately $1.5 million at the time. The account has published 30,408 posts. Andreas Aantonop Team has been mentioned by 2,105 accounts, with 10,034 total mentions.
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