Gavin Andresen Leaves Bitcoin Foundation; Joins Digital Currency Initiative
Update: Gavin Andersen has contacted us via Twitter regarding this article. He has stated that he is still the Chief scientist for the Bitcoin Foundation. Bitcoinist is reaching out for additional comments, and apologizes for the confusion. Gavin Andresen, if you do not know, is a well-regarded Bitcoin celebrity of sorts. Most known for his work for Bitcoin, Gavin has access to the alert key that allows him to broadcast messages about critical network problems to all client users. This shows the amount of trust Satoshi Nakamoto put into Gavin, whom he contacted back and forth with via....
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Bitcoin core developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan have joined the MIT Digital Currency Initiative in full-time positions. While making the announcement via a blog post, Gavin stated that the developers collectively decided that MIT is the best place to continue their work on Bitcoin Core. Gavin Andresen is the co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation, an organization which was formed to benefit the Bitcoin ecosystem but has rather been mired in controversies. Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan have been formerly associated with the foundation as well. Gavin took....
Lead Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen, chief scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, has announced that he and other Bitcoin Core developers are joining the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. A few days ago Bitcoin Magazine reported that the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab announced the launch of a Digital Currency Initiative, to be directed by former White House senior adviser for mobile and data innovation Brian Forde. The MIT Digital Currency Initiative will integrate researchers across the institute and leading experts at other universities around the world....
AMA in progress: Link. It was just about a week ago when the Bitcoin Foundation announced a Reddit AMA series in the spirit of transparency (AMA stands for "ask me anything"). The idea, as you might have already guessed, is designed to give the bitcoin community easy access to asking questions to some of the well-known entities at the Foundation. Last week, the first to be asked questions by the community was Jim Harper, who serves as Global Policy Counsel at the Foundation. This week, someone else it up, and that someone is Gavin Andresen. Andresen serves as "Chief Scientist" at the....
The MIT Digital Currency Initiative is stepping up to take a larger role in bitcoin development, announcing today that core developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan have joined the project in a full-time capacity. Andresen, Fields and van der Laan had previously been supported financially by the Bitcoin Foundation, an industry trade group that has been in the midst of pivoting due to funding constraints. MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Brian Forde expressed his view that the move would help bring stability to developers, an environment he suggested had been....
Chief Scientist and one of the founding members of The Bitcoin Foundation, Gavin Andresen has called the fellow founding members Charlie Shrem and Mark Karpeles "a disgrace to the cryptocurrency industry." At the recently concluded DevCore London conference, Gavin Andresen called the actions of the two co-founders highly damaging to the Bitcoin Foundation. "That was a huge, deplorable, terrible hit to the foundation - a huge black eye. If I could go back in time, both of these people would not be on the foundation board." Gavin further adds that, "We didn't have enough money to support all....