Harry Halpin - Nym ✓

@harryhalpin · Paris, France · joined 21 Mar 2008

CEO and co-founder @nym (NymVPN in app stores) and open internet advocate. Research fellow @mit @VUBrussel. Ex-@w3c, @inria, and @AUB_Lebanon

19 756Followers

3 681Following

14 703Posts total

632.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views2 567this account980median for 10K–100K

Reach, %12.99%this account3.27%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.17%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 567	980	2.62×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.99%	3.27%	3.97×
Engagement rate	1.17%	2.01%	0.58×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

353.3K22 Apr

10.7K

4.3K23 Apr

4.9K

9.6K14 Aug

10.8K18 Aug

2.6K

116.4K20 Aug

1.2K21 Aug

118.7K23 Aug

201

9124 Aug

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.28%22 Apr

1.15%

0.42%23 Apr

0.43%

1.17%14 Aug

1.43%18 Aug

1.48%

0.27%20 Aug

0.33%21 Aug

0.09%23 Aug

0.50%

2.20%24 Aug

4.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes49.3%3 929 in total

Reposts15.0%1 194 in total

Replies2.2%172 in total

Quotes1.7%139 in total

Bookmarks31.9%2 543 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@harryhalpin @SimpleXChat @nym 👍👍👍❤ 25 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@harryhalpin @SimpleXChat @nym SimpleXChat sounds like a game changer 91 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@harryhalpin @SimpleXChat @nym 👀 201 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

I just invested in @SimpleXChat’s fundraise - and you should too! High-profile activists and whistleblowers can’t use phone numbers to chat for matters of life and death, and combined with the @nym mixnet it’s the best security you can get! https://t.co/tTayDWpE4k 118.7K views · 85 likes · 12 reposts · 7 replies 23 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

The project of SDF and DAANES for decentralization, autonomy, and feminism was an spark of hope amidst the suffering of Syria. The world is still very dark, and I hope that on the ground the hard-won rights are preserved and there is not a second betrayal, but peace prevails. 1.2K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 21 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

SDF Commander-in-Chief @MazloumAbdi today .“The phase of integrating the military, security and administrative institutions into the state institutions has ended, and from today onward, a new phase has begun,” he said, calling on the people of the region to protect the https://t. 116.4K views · 239 likes · 44 reposts · 18 replies 20 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

With @nym support next! 2.6K views · 35 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 18 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

This is so fun! Not only will zero-indexer protect the IP address of Zcash users right away, but this also gives us more ideas of ways we could further strengthen Zcash with this trusted enclave tech now that it is (finally!) maturing. 10.8K views · 126 likes · 22 reposts · 5 replies 18 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Just a quick question - a lot of people are unhappy Nym is on Cosmos. However, in order for @nym to move blockchains, we would need 1) smart contracts in Web Assembly/Rust and 2) shielded transactions. Does anyone hand this combination working at all? 9.6K views · 62 likes · 8 reposts · 39 replies 14 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@harryhalpin Very well, you’re telling me why. I’m asking you how, and more importantly, how would you organize people so they can turn an intention into concrete action? 4.9K views · 19 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 23 Apr 2026 · Open on X →

@harryhalpin @AlessandroFusi9 Point 1 is wrong, so is everything else that follows. Internet was created as a military american asset, and so it has always been. 4.3K views · 13 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 23 Apr 2026 · Open on X →

@harryhalpin Before I was a bitcoiner, I was an advocate for internet freedom who raised 100k signatures on a clicktivism website to stop the ratification of ACTA in Romania in Europe (early 2012, I was 19 years old). Everything that you wrote here is a very well structured col 10.7K views · 116 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 22 Apr 2026 · Open on X →

Because I get asked a lot. Why we must fight Palantir, in brief. 1. Programmers working on the Internet have a moral responsibility to the entire world, not a single country. The Internet has been designed since its inception as a universal system for the sharing of knowledge 353.3K views · 3.2K likes · 1.1K reposts · 95 replies 22 Apr 2026 · Open on X →