Hunter Beast is a Bitcoin and Rust developer who authored BIP 360, a consensus soft fork specification introducing Pay-to-Merkle-Root to the Bitcoin protocol. Hunter Beast's Twitter Score is 79 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #10,222 (top 5%) among 498,181 tracked accounts.
Hunter Beast works at Surmount Systems as CTO, where the focus is on quantum security for Bitcoin through the proposed QuBit soft fork. He co-founded BIP 360: Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR), and has also founded Carbonado and Layered Bitcoin. His technical work spans Rust, Bitcoin, Lightning, and other Bitcoin-native layers.
Hunter Beast previously worked with RGB for DIBA, contributing to the BitMask wallet over a two-year period. He has accumulated 11,683 followers as of October 2026 and published 28,478 posts on the platform. Hunter Beast has been mentioned by 91 accounts, with 234 total mentions.
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