Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ (@gladstein) — Twitter Score 321 out of 1000

Alex Gladstein is a Bitcoin and human-rights advocate who serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Human Rights Foundation and Vice President of Strategy at Oslo Freedom Forum. Alex Gladstein's Twitter Score is 321 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #993 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.

Alex Gladstein frequently speaks and writes about why Bitcoin matters for freedom. He co-authored The Little Bitcoin Book and has since written Check Your Financial Privilege, published in 2022, and Hidden Repression, published in April 2023, both under Bitcoin Magazine Books. His work connects Bitcoin's properties as open, permissionless money to the practical needs of activists and dissidents operating under authoritarian financial systems.

Alex Gladstein's role at Human Rights Foundation includes oversight of its Financial Freedom program, which educates activists worldwide and makes grants to advance Bitcoin as a tool for human rights. Central to that program is the Bitcoin Development Fund, which supports projects making Bitcoin a more powerful tool for human-rights defenders. On January 13, 2026, HRF announced 1.3 billion satoshis in Bitcoin Development Fund grants supporting 22 projects. Since 2020, the fund has granted $9.6 million in BTC to 319 projects across 62 countries.

Alex Gladstein has accumulated 263,038 followers as of July 2026 and has published 138,942 posts. He has been mentioned by 769 accounts, with 2,952 total mentions.

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