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Brink (@bitcoinbrink) — Twitter Score 72 out of 1000
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Laura Shin
nic carter
Anthony Pompliano 🌪
SBF
H.E. Justin Sun 👨🚀 🌞
Jesse Powell
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About Brink's Twitter Score
Brink is a nonprofit organization that funds and mentors open-source Bitcoin Core protocol developers through grants, fellowships, and research. Brink's Twitter Score is 72 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #14,231 (top 5%) among 464,440 tracked accounts.
Brink was co-founded by Mike Schmidt and John Newbery, with founding sponsorship from John Pfeffer and Wences Casares. Incorporated as a 501(c)(3) organization under the name Brink Technology, Inc, it is entirely donation-funded, with all contributions directed toward supporting Bitcoin developers. Brink runs two core programs: a year-long grant program for established Bitcoin protocol engineers focused on security and stability of the base protocol and related technologies including Lightning, and an intensive one-year fellowship designed to onboard software engineers into Bitcoin protocol development.
Brink reported approximately $6,500,000 in donor contributions in 2024 from over 500 donors, and approximately $7,800,000 in donor contributions in 2025. In 2025, roughly 87% of approximately $2,600,000 in total expenses went toward program activities. That year, Brink funded eight engineers, supported two fuzz testing interns, helped ship seven Bitcoin Core releases, and commissioned what it described as Bitcoin Core's first public external security audit, conducted by Quarkslab. Also in 2025, Brink grantee Niklas Gögge designed and released Fuzzamoto, an end-to-end fuzz testing framework for Bitcoin implementations. Current grantees include Michael Ford, Hennadii Stepanov, Sebastian Falbesoner, Niklas Gögge, Stéphan Vuylsteke, Fabian Jahr, Eugene Siegel, Marco De Leon, and conduition.
Brink is affiliated with Bitcoin Optech and Bitcoin Core PR Review Club. Program partners backing Brink include Coinbase, Ledger, Paxos, OKX, Kraken, Gemini, Human Rights Foundation, BitMEX, Bitwise, VanEck, Lightspark, CMS Holdings, Stacks Foundation, BlockFi, Core Scientific, and others. Brink has 13,275 followers as of July 2026 on X and has published 462 posts. Brink has been mentioned by 122 accounts a total of 297 times.
Who follows Brink on X?
The accounts that follow Brink include 257 founders, 44 angel investors, 135 influencers and 8 VCs. Among them are Laura Shin, Nic Carter, Anthony Pompliano, SBF, H.E. Justin Sun and Jesse Powell.
