nifty, ideas guy (@niftynei) — Twitter Score 132 out of 1000

nifty, ideas guy is a Bitcoin and Lightning protocol developer who founded Base58, a Bitcoin-standard software engineering school and 501(c)(3) non-profit. nifty, ideas guy's Twitter Score is 132 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #4,661 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.

nifty, ideas guy, whose real name is Lisa Neigut, works at Blockstream as a lightning protocol developer and at Core Lightning in the same capacity, though she is currently on sabbatical from Blockstream while writing a book about transacting with bitcoin, building curriculum for Base58, and running the bitcoin++ conference series. Blockstream raised $210 million in Series B financing in August 2021 at a $3.2 billion valuation, and secured a further $210 million led by Fulgur Ventures in October 2024.

nifty, ideas guy organizes the bitcoin++ developer-focused conference series, which has executed 17 conferences, featured more than 400 talks, drawn more than 2,700 attendees, and awarded more than $65,000 in hackathon prizes. She is also affiliated with bitcoin++ Insider Edition, a companion publication to the conference series.

nifty, ideas guy has 21,298 followers as of August 2026 and has published 68,548 posts. She has been mentioned by 217 accounts a total of 717 times.

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