Lucas Ferreira is a Bitcoin ecosystem organizer who co-founded Vinteum, a nonprofit Bitcoin research and development center supporting open-source developers across Latin America. Lucas Ferreira's Twitter Score is 40 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #23,404 (top 5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Lucas Ferreira co-founded Vinteum and serves as its Executive Director. The organization trains and funds open-source developers working on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, with a focus on Brazil and Latin America. Vinteum counts Wences Casares, John Pfeffer, Sebastian Serrano, OKX, and the Human Rights Foundation among its founding supporters and donors. Since 2024, Xapo Bank has covered Vinteum's operational costs, allowing new donations to flow directly to developers and educational programs.
Lucas Ferreira also organizes Satsconf, a Bitcoin-focused conference in Brazil that facilitated over 1,800 BTC payments in 2023. Alongside this, he co-hosts Vinteum's Bitcoin Optech Recap, a series covering technical developments from Bitcoin Optech. Previously, Lucas Ferreira worked as an evangelist at Lightning Labs, and formerly held roles at Ripio and Paxful. Lucas Ferreira's account has published 13,030 posts and has been mentioned by 51 accounts a total of 87 times.
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Lucas Ferreira draws a focused audience from across the Bitcoin and broader crypto space. The accounts that follow Lucas Ferreira include 226 founders, 13 angel investors, 111 influencers and 4 VCs, among them CoinDesk, The Bitcoin Historian, leighcuen.substack.com, Dylan LeClair, Mark W. Yusko - Two Point One Quadrillion and Documenting Itcoin.