Summer Of Bitcoin is a global online internship program that introduces university students to Bitcoin open-source development and design. Summer Of Bitcoin's Twitter Score is 15 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #63,850 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Summer Of Bitcoin was founded by Adi Shankara as a structured summer program connecting students with established Bitcoin developers and open-source projects. Participants learn how Bitcoin works, contribute to real projects under mentor guidance, and receive bitcoin as a stipend. Projects that students have contributed to include Bitcoin Core, the Lightning Network, and Bitcoin Dev Kit.
Summer Of Bitcoin has reported more than 200 interns drawn from over 15 countries across 6 continents, with contributions spanning more than 60 projects and more than 50 hires resulting from the program. The program runs annually, covering an application phase, a challenge round, proposal review, mentored project work, evaluations, and post-program job referrals, with a 2026 edition currently underway.
Summer Of Bitcoin is backed by enterprise sponsors including Spiral, Human Rights Foundation, Btrust, and OpenSats. Partners supporting the program include Blockstream Jade as a hardware wallet partner, Unchained as a self-custody partner, River Financial as a brokerage partner, and Bitcoiner Jobs as a jobs partner. Summer Of Bitcoin has accumulated 5,646 followers as of October 2026 and published 616 posts since joining in 2021. The account has been mentioned by 34 accounts a total of 79 times.
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The accounts that follow Summer Of Bitcoin include 91 founders, 7 angel investors and 47 influencers. Among the notable followers are Tyler Winklevoss, leighcuen.substack.com, Mark W. Yusko - Two Point One Quadrillion, Documenting Itcoin, Alex Gladstein and Blockstream.