John Pfeffer is an entrepreneur, investor, and Bitcoin advocate who co-founded Pfeffer Capital LP and authored an influential paper making the institutional case for Bitcoin as a non-sovereign store of value. John Pfeffer's Twitter Score is 140 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #4,961 (top 5%) among 464,440 tracked accounts.
John Pfeffer is best known for the paper "An (Institutional) Investor's Take on Cryptoassets," published in 2017, which argued for Bitcoin's long-term value as a non-sovereign store of value for institutional investors while contending that other cryptoassets have limited long-term value. Before founding Pfeffer Capital LP, John Pfeffer was a consultant at McKinsey, advising on turnarounds in Europe and Latin America, and previously served as Chairman of the Executive Board of Groupe Allium S.A. John Pfeffer also formerly worked at KKR as a Partner.
John Pfeffer is affiliated with Coin Center, the nonprofit focused on cryptocurrency policy research and advocacy, and with University of the People. John Pfeffer's account has published 676 posts and has been mentioned by 114 accounts a total of 167 times. As an angel investor, John Pfeffer has backed Dapper Labs, Bitcoin Optech, Brink, COPA, Ledn, OpenSats, Ingonyama Now MoonMath AI and Mash.
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