Bitcoin Core Project is the open-source project that maintains and releases the Bitcoin Core client software, a direct descendant of the original Bitcoin software released by Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin Core Project's Twitter Score is 197 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #2,736 (top 1%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Bitcoin Core Project was founded by Satoshi Nakamoto and provides both full-node software for fully validating the blockchain and a bitcoin wallet. The project is affiliated with Bitcoin and its source code is maintained in the GitHub bitcoin/bitcoin repository, released under the MIT license. The project also maintains libsecp256k1, the cryptographic library underpinning Bitcoin's signature operations. Bitcoin Core Project has publicly warned users about impersonation accounts on X spreading false information.
Bitcoin Core Project is backed by several organizations supporting Bitcoin development, including Chaincode Labs, Blockstream, MIT Digital Currency Initiative, Spiral, Human Rights Foundation, and Brink. The account has published 271 posts and has 187,174 followers as of July 2026, and has been mentioned by 353 accounts a total of 1,274 times.
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The accounts that follow Bitcoin Core Project include 701 founders, 128 angel investors, 279 influencers and 34 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Michael Saylor, CoinDesk and Chris Burniske.