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Former Bitcoin Developer Amir Taaki Calls for Ross Ulbricht’s Freedom on Election Day
5.11.2024
Amir Taaki, a former Bitcoin developer, voiced strong support for Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, in a statement released on U.S. Election Day, emphasizing Ulbricht’s influence on the cryptocurrency landscape and urging his release from prison. Amir Taaki Credits Ross Ulbricht as a Crypto...
Peter Todd, Bitcoin Developer Named as Satoshi Nakamoto in HBO Documentary, Goes Into Hiding
23.10.2024
Core developer Peter Todd was revealed as Nakamoto in the documentary shot by Cullen Hoback. Todd, however, denied being Nakamoto in a previous email to CoinDesk
Peter Todd named Satoshi on HBO, Mt. Gox repayment plan deadline postponed, and more: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 6 – 12
12.10.2024
Mt. Gox postponed the deadline to repay creditors, Canadian Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd was named Satoshi in HBO doco: Hodlers Digest
FBI Investigates Bitcoin Developer Event Linked to Luke Dashjr’s Hack
12.4.2024
Mike Schmidt complied with an FBI subpoena to provide information on attendees at a developer event, as part of the investigation into the theft of Luke Dashjr's Bitcoins.
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Bitcoin Developer's Proposal to Stop 'Spam' NFTs Gets Shut Down
9.1.2024
Luke Dashjr's technical proposal sounded innocuous enough: to make the popular Bitcoin Core software "effective with newer datacarrying styles." In reality, the effort represented a sophisticated but controversial plan to block the suddenly popular "inscriptions" known as "NFTs on Bitcoin."
‘Controversial’ Bitcoin Proposal to Curb Inscriptions Ignites Fierce Debate, Ends Without Resolution
7.1.2024
On Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, the debate surrounding Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr’s proposal to restrict all varieties of data-bearing transactions concluded as the topic veered into “controversial” territory. Bitcoin Core custodian and Blockstream staff member Andrew Chow...
Bitcoin Ordinals Founder: Market Forces, Not Censorship, Should Shape Future
4.1.2024
Bitcoin developer Casey Rodarmor opposes censoring blockchain transactions enabled by his bitcoin ordinals project, sparking community debate. Image by Fareed Mindalano, DALL-E 3. Bitcoin protocol developer Casey Rodarmor has strongly reiterated his opposition to censoring transactions on...
Bitcoin Developer Luke Dashjr Registers Ordinal Inscriptions Workaround as a Vulnerability
13.12.2023
Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin developer and CTO of Mummalin, has registered a method that allows Ordinal inscriptions to be saved on the Bitcoin blockchain as a code vulnerability. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-50428, states that “datacarrier size limits can be bypassed by obfuscating data...
Bitcoin Developer Luke Dashjr States Inscriptions Are Exploits, Hints at Future Fix
7.12.2023
Luke Dashjr, bitcoin developer and Mummolin’s CTO, has reiterated his negative opinion about Ordinal inscriptions, stating these leverage and exploit a vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core full node software implementation. Dashjr also hinted at correcting this “exploit” in...
Bitcoin Mining Pool F2pool Acknowledges OFAC Transaction Censorship; Backpedals After Community Backlash
24.11.2023
F2Pool, a Bitcoin mining pool, has admitted to filtering transactions coming from Bitcoin addresses flagged by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). After the situation was discovered by 0xB10C, a Bitcoin developer, F2pool co-founder Chun Wang acknowledged that his pool was indeed applying...
A ‘Tremendous Variety of Possible Transaction Types’ — A Look at the Conversation Between Nakamoto and Andresen
11.5.2023
The Bitcoin mempool, otherwise known as the network’s transaction backlog, is still clogged with over 390,000 transactions waiting to be processed by miners. To clear the mempool, more than 190 blocks need to be mined. As the scaling issues continue to plague the network, a conversation between...
Mysterious entity may be collecting BTC users' IP addresses — Bitcoin developer
29.3.2023
The entity reportedly uses a range of 812 different IP addresses to obscure its identity while collecting data
Bitcoin core developer claims to have lost 200+ BTC in hack
2.1.2023
A Bitcoin OG and core developer Luke Dashjr claims his PGP key was compromised, resulting in virtually all his Bitcoin being stolen from him on Dec. 31
Bitcoin is the perfect settlement layer to build apps on top of: Hiro CEO
14.9.2022
Bitcoin programmability may also help further drive Bitcoin adoption as both a technical and financial layer in our society, which in turn may “drive up the price” over the long term
How I Became a Bitcoin Developer Fresh Out of High School
12.7.2022
Daniela Brozzoni discusses her journey from high school to the front lines of Bitcoin wallet development, thanks to a grant from Spiral
So You Want to Be a Bitcoin Developer?
1.7.2022
Brink co-founder Mike Schmidt and Bitcoin Core developer Larry Ruane discuss the ins and outs of funding Bitcoin research and development. This post is part of CoinDesk's Future of Work Week
Gavin Andresen Publishes Theory of Possible Crypto Future: Whales Shut Down the BTC Network in the Year 2100
24.9.2021
On September 21, former Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen published an interesting blog post about “a possible [Bitcoin] future.” The blog post details a theoretical situation for the Bitcoin network in 2061, where most [bitcoin] transactions don’t happen on the [Bitcoin]...
Former Bitcoin Developer Mike Hearn Steps Down From Enterprise Blockchain Firm R3
12.2.2021
Hearn will become CEO of a new firm while remaining a technical adviser to R3
Bitcoin Developer Fund Brink Is Granted Tax-Exempt Status
10.2.2021
U.S. bitcoiners can now make tax-exempt donations to fund Bitcoin development
Longtime Bitcoin Developer Jonas Schnelli Receives Open-Source Grant
28.1.2021
Jonas Schnelli joins other Bitcoin developers who are sponsored by high-caliber Bitcoin companies