Yan is a Bitcoin entrepreneur and author who co-founded Swan Bitcoin, where he serves as CTO. Yan's Twitter Score is 98 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #8,422 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Yan co-founded Swan Bitcoin, a platform focused exclusively on Bitcoin services including investing, custody, and education. He is also the author of Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind the First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained, published in June 2019. Yan previously served as an advisor to Riot Blockchain.
Yan has been at the center of notable legal activity involving Swan Bitcoin. In 2024, Swan Bitcoin filed a lawsuit alleging former employees conspired to steal trade secrets and join a competing company, with Tether implicated in related reports. In February 2025, a London High Court rejected Tether's attempt to halt Swan's California lawsuit against those former employees. Yan has 40,165 followers as of July 2026 and has published 21,085 posts. Yan has been mentioned by 159 accounts, with 776 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Yan include 407 founders, 48 angel investors, 281 influencers and 6 VCs. Among them are CZ BNB, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Michael Saylor, Anthony Pompliano and Jesse Powell.