Austin Hill (@austinhill) — Twitter Score 146 out of 1000

Austin Hill is a crypto and privacy entrepreneur who co-founded Blockstream and Zero-Knowledge Systems. Austin Hill's Twitter Score is 146 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #3,928 (top 1%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.

Austin Hill co-founded Blockstream, a Bitcoin and blockchain technology company, alongside Adam Back and other co-founders. Blockstream develops infrastructure including the Liquid Network sidechain and Blockstream Satellite. Austin Hill also co-founded Zero-Knowledge Systems with Hamnett Hill and Hamnett Hill Sr., a privacy technology company known for the Freedom Network, an early anonymous networking technology that predated Tor. Zero-Knowledge Systems later rebranded as Radialpoint and was subsequently acquired by AppDirect and rebranded as AppHelp.

Austin Hill currently co-founded and works at Elementa, and previously worked at Machine Phase Systems. In 2026, The Guardian reported, based on released U.S. Department of Justice documents, that Jeffrey Epstein made a $500,000 early-stage investment in Blockstream in 2014 through an investment fund co-owned with Joichi Ito; Blockstream's Adam Back stated that Epstein was understood to be a limited partner in Ito's fund and that the fund later divested from Blockstream. The same report indicated that email communications showed Austin Hill and Adam Back were invited by Epstein to meet in St Thomas, and that Austin Hill continued communicating with Epstein into 2017.

Austin Hill has published 23,974 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 144 accounts, with 312 total mentions.

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