Moxie Marlinspike is a cryptographer and privacy technologist who co-founded Signal Foundation with Brian Acton in 2018, seeding it with an initial $50 million from Acton. Moxie Marlinspike's Twitter Score is 336 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #852 (top 0.5%) among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Moxie Marlinspike also co-founded Whisper Systems and founded Open Whisper Systems, the cryptographic projects that laid the groundwork for what became Signal Foundation. He previously served as CEO of Signal Messenger, stepping down from that role in January 2022 while remaining on the Signal board. Moxie Marlinspike also previously served as a paid technical adviser to MobileCoin from its inception, a relationship that drew attention when Signal introduced a MobileCoin payments feature for UK users in April 2021. At that time, neither he nor Signal held any MobileCoins. MobileCoin subsequently raised $66 million in a Series B round in August 2021, valuing the company at $1.066 billion.
Moxie Marlinspike has accumulated 186,164 followers as of October 2026 on Twitter since 2009 and has published 6,540 posts. He has been mentioned by 388 accounts, with 921 total mentions.
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