Yan at Swan ✓

@skwp · Chicago, IL · joined 05 Dec 2006

co-founder & CTO @swan. Author Inventing Bitcoin. Shadowy Super Coder.

40 451Followers

3 390Following

21 457Posts total

43.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views6 082this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %15.03%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.25%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 082	2 751	2.21×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	15.03%	9.00%	1.67×
Engagement rate	1.25%	1.65%	0.76×

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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

14.7K12 Aug

7.6K31 Aug

1.8K

12.5K1 Sep

2.1K2 Sep

4.6K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.48%12 Aug

1.86%31 Aug

0.72%

1.01%1 Sep

0.80%2 Sep

2.35%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes75.6%489 in total

Reposts6.5%42 in total

Replies11.6%75 in total

Quotes2.5%16 in total

Bookmarks3.9%25 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

One thing that can be learned from the history of splinter groups in Bitcoin is that they keep splintering and the splinters become more fringe. BCH started with at least a “sane” premise of wanting bigger blocks (if technically misguided). Then it further splintered into the 4.6K views · 88 likes · 4 reposts · 15 replies 02 Sep 2026 This is a thin almost nonexistent market but does appear to confirm my prediction that Blakies would be worth close to zero. 2.1K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 When Bitcoin cash launched its exchange value was roughly 8.8% of what Bitcoin was worth. When btc2b launched and was listed it's value was roughly 0.11% that of bitcoins. Incredible. https://t.co/QLjhk84JJz 12.5K views · 85 likes · 3 reposts · 32 replies 01 Sep 2026 For the love of everything that's holy, don't put your private key into a website while trying to claim some of these Blakies. Not linking to the site because it's a toxic idea. Do not put private keys into a website, ever. Do not let a website generate your private keys. Just ht 1.8K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 This is a small example of the hurdle you have even with your own followers trying to convince them to pay you on your hard forked chain while calling it the “original” chain. The game theoretically impossible task of getting everyone to hard fork their software, their mind, and 7.6K views · 124 likes · 7 reposts · 9 replies 31 Aug 2026 There are not “two sides” in bitcoin. It’s not core vs knots. It’s not devs vs users. It’s *way* more interesting than that. The only thing you can control in Bitcoin is what software *you* run. Literally. That is all. All of the emergent governance properties stem from that. 14.7K views · 165 likes · 28 reposts · 17 replies 12 Aug 2026