Mark is a game designer and entrepreneur who founded 21e8 Limited, a venture building computational data markets that use proof-of-work to price digital information as an alternative to advertising-based systems. Mark's Twitter Score is 85 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #9,153 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Mark developed 21e8, a decentralized peer-to-peer search engine that relies on cryptographic proof rather than ads and operates without a central server. He also maintains a fork of PoW Market, a distributed proof-of-work market for magic numbers tied to Bitcoin SV. His work positions him as a strategist at the intersection of Bitcoin proof-of-work mechanisms and digital information markets, and he has publicly criticized venture capital funding models on X.
Mark previously worked at Nyriad as Director of Strategy, and was formerly affiliated with both the SNIA Computational Storage Technical Working Group and the Strelka Institute. Mark has accumulated 13,839 followers as of September 2026 across 135,859 posts on the platform. He has been mentioned by 120 accounts, with 395 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Mark include 338 founders, 79 angel investors, 110 influencers and 5 VCs. Among his notable followers are Marc Andreessen, Ansem, Fred Ehrsam, 6529, smolting wassie, verse and Loomdart.