Bitcoin people: developers, X voices, YouTube
Who builds Bitcoin and who explains it. Every account below was checked before listing.
Bitcoin developers
Bitcoin Core maintainers and prominent contributors. Roles checked on GitHub on 2026-10-10: maintainers are the people who merged pull requests into bitcoin/bitcoin in September 2026. X buttons only for accounts we confirmed belong to the person.
Bitcoin Core maintainer, the most frequent merger in Sep 2026; wallet and release process
Bitcoin Core maintainer: build system, dependencies, reproducible Guix releases
Bitcoin Core maintainer supported by Brink: CMake build system, GUI
Bitcoin Core maintainer: multiprocess/IPC, wallet; Chaincode Labs
Co-author of SegWit and Taproot/Schnorr (BIP 340–342), libsecp256k1, Miniscript, cluster mempool; Chaincode Labs
Mempool and transaction relay policy: package relay, TRUC (v3) transactions
Testing, CI and fuzzing; former Bitcoin Core maintainer
Great Consensus Cleanup (BIP 54), Miniscript; Chaincode Labs
Consensus, relay policy and signet; co-author of BIP 118 (ANYPREVOUT)
BIP editor, coin selection, Bitcoin Optech and Stack Exchange; Localhost Research
Bitcoin Core: mining interface for Stratum v2, wallet; author of “Bitcoin: A Work in Progress”
Mempool policy (TRUC, ephemeral anchors) and Lightning; Spiral
Bitcoin Core contributor (kernel, education), Brink grantee
Bitcoin Core contributor; co-founded Brink and Bitcoin Optech
Early Bitcoin Core contributor; LDK (Lightning Dev Kit) at Spiral
Author of BIP 65 (CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY), Replace-by-Fee, OpenTimestamps
Maintainer of Bitcoin Knots; author of many BIPs
Author of OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (BIP 119)
Early Bitcoin Core developer: CoinJoin, Confidential Transactions, libsecp256k1; no longer active on GitHub
Bitcoin developer; long-running archive of technical talk transcripts
Security and self-custody, Casa co-founder & CSO (not a Bitcoin Core maintainer)
Bitcoin influencers on X
Bitcoin-only voices. Follower counts from the X API on 2026-10-10.
| Name | About | Followers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Saylor @saylor | Strategy founder & chairman | 5.21M | Follow |
| Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine | Bitcoin media | 4.51M | Follow |
| PlanB @100trillionUSD | Stock-to-flow model author | 2.16M | Follow |
| Dan Held @danheld | Bitcoin marketer, ex-Kraken | 1.33M | Follow |
| Willy Woo @willywoo | On-chain analyst | 1.24M | Follow |
| Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact | Macro analyst, author of Broken Money | 1.14M | Follow |
| Documenting Bitcoin @DocumentingBTC | Bitcoin history & news curation | 1.12M | Follow |
| Adam Back @adam3us | Hashcash inventor, Blockstream CEO | 973K | Follow |
| Preston Pysh @PrestonPysh | Investor, Bitcoin Fundamentals podcast | 746K | Follow |
| Jack Mallers @jackmallers | Strike founder | 717K | Follow |
| Natalie Brunell @natbrunell | Coin Stories host, author | 648K | Follow |
| Peter McCormack @PeterMcCormack | The Peter McCormack Show (ex-What Bitcoin Did) | 617K | Follow |
| Jameson Lopp @lopp | Security, Casa co-founder | 531K | Follow |
| Saifedean Ammous @saifedean | Author of The Bitcoin Standard | 424K | Follow |
| Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4 | Bit gold, smart contracts pioneer | 374K | Follow |
| Samson Mow @Excellion | JAN3 CEO, nation-state adoption | 365K | Follow |
| Jimmy Song @jimmysong | Developer, educator, author | 353K | Follow |
| Marty Bent @MartyBent | TFTC founder, Ten31 | 274K | Follow |
| Stephan Livera @stephanlivera | Bitcoin podcaster | 194K | Follow |
| BTC Sessions @BTCsessions | Wallet & self-custody tutorials | 179K | Follow |
| Vijay Boyapati @real_vijay | Author of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin | 166K | Follow |
| NVK @nvk | Coinkite CEO | 162K | Follow |
| hodlonaut @hodlonaut | Citizen journalist, #LightningTorch | 160K | Follow |
| Michael Goldstein (Bitstein) @bitstein | President, Satoshi Nakamoto Institute | 125K | Follow |
| Pierre Rochard @BitcoinPierre | CEO, The Bitcoin Bond Company | 107K | Follow |
| American HODL @americanhodl8 | Bitcoin-only commentator | 98K | Follow |
| Giacomo Zucco @giacomozucco | President, Plan ₿ Network | 87K | Follow |
| Parker Lewis @parkeralewis | Author of Gradually, Then Suddenly | 81K | Follow |
Not listed: Matt Odell (@MATT_ODELL bio says 'new handle: @ODELL', but @ODELL could not be resolved by the X API on 2026-10-10, so no follow button.); Andreas M. Antonopoulos (@aantonop is real but the bio says his team now runs it and the last post was on 2024-12-15, so it was removed from the list on 2026-10-10.)
Bitcoin channels on YouTube
Each channel was matched to its official channel ID and had a new upload in the last two weeks (checked 2026-10-10). Subscriber counts as shown by YouTube.
Long-form Bitcoin interviews with Danny Knowles
▶ Was Silvergate Killed for Banking Bitcoin? | Alan Lane · 9h agoCoin Stories: Bitcoin-first financial education
▶ The Future of Buying, Selling, and Owning Bitcoin in America · 1d agoWallet and self-custody tutorials
▶ 12 Bitcoin Charts, One Painfully Obvious Conclusion | Rational Root · 1d agoNews, conferences, interviews
▶ Ark Invest’s Lorenzo Valente: Bitcoin’s 5-Year Forecast - Stablecoin & Gold Impacts · 5h agoTechnical and economic Bitcoin podcast
▶ Seed Phrases vs Key Sharding: Multisig's UX Trade-offs | Setzeus SLP781 · 1d agoBitcoin podcast and newsletter by Marty Bent
▶ Why This Is The End Of The British Empire | Susan Kokinda · 2d agoMatthew Kratter's short Bitcoin explainers
▶ Won't Bitcoin Miners Just Switch Mining Pools? · 15h agoNot listed: The Investor's Podcast / Bitcoin Fundamentals (no official Bitcoin Fundamentals YouTube channel found on 2026-10-10); Mark Moss (official channel is @1MarkMoss, but it is a general macro/wealth channel, not Bitcoin-only, so it is not listed); Citadel Dispatch (Matt Odell) (@CitadelDispatch found, but its last upload was over a year ago)
Listing is not an endorsement. Do your own research.