Alex Petrov is a crypto and HPC/AI executive who serves as CIO at Hyperfusion, with a career in IT spanning more than three decades. Alex Petrov's Twitter Score is 95 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #7,742 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Alex Petrov previously worked at Bitfury Group as both CIO and CSO. Bitfury Group is a blockchain and bitcoin-mining hardware and software company founded by Valery Vavilov. Alex Petrov has been engaged with Bitcoin since 2013 and is affiliated with the Lightning Network, and his public profile also references exposure to HUT 8 and Cipher Mining. His technical background spans Unix and network engineering as well as FPGA and chip design.
Alex Petrov's account has published 4,477 posts and has 11,839 followers as of August 2026. Alex Petrov has been mentioned by 83 accounts a total of 181 times.
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