Gavin Andresen (@gavinandresen) — Twitter Score 359 out of 1000

Gavin Andresen is a software developer and early Bitcoin pioneer who founded RiskiPedia, an interactive wiki about risks, after retiring from all things crypto. Gavin Andresen's Twitter Score is 359 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #731 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.

Gavin Andresen was Bitcoin's de facto leader following Satoshi Nakamoto's withdrawal from public involvement, previously working at Bitcoin Core as lead developer before naming Wladimir van der Laan as his successor in April 2014. He co-founded the Bitcoin Foundation and also founded The Bitcoin Faucet, the first bitcoin faucet, which originally gave out five bitcoins per person when he developed it in 2010.

Gavin Andresen co-authored the blockchain security paper An Analysis of Attacks on Blockchain Consensus with George Bissias, Brian Neil Levine, and A. Pinar Ozisik. He was formerly affiliated with Bitcoin XT, a competing version of Bitcoin Core he published alongside Mike Hearn in 2015 intended to increase Bitcoin's block-size limit, and was formerly affiliated with the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. In May 2016, Andresen stated that a private signing demonstration had convinced him Craig Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim widely criticized by security experts; in March 2024, the UK High Court ruled that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, not the author of the Bitcoin white paper, and not the creator of the Bitcoin system or its initial software versions.

Gavin Andresen has 176,630 followers as of July 2026 and has published 2,580 posts. Gavin Andresen has been mentioned by 540 accounts a total of 1,954 times.

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