BitPay hires core Bitcoin coder Jeff Garzik
BitPay has lured one of the key volunteer bitcoin developers to work for it full time. Jeff Garzik will be coding for the company, which will also allow him to develop software for the broader bitcoin community. Garzik has worked at Red Hat, a developer of LINUX software, since 2002, serving as principal software engineer. He has also been a core bitcoin developer since the beginning, working on the Satoshi client, and is listed as one of seven such developers on bitcoin.org. He founded the site Bitcoin Watch, which provides real-time snapshots of bitcoin market data. His full-time....
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Yesterday, BitPay Inc, the world's leading payment processor for Bitcoin announced an expansion to now 10 full time employees. BitPay, founded in 2011 by Tony Gallippi and Stephen Pair, has continued to expand in organizational and merchant growth. Through enabling now almost 7,000 merchants to be able to process payments in the Bitcoin currency, BitPay continues to lead the way in promoting the utility of Bitcoin. BitPay announced the newest additions to the team. Jeff Garzik, Bitcoin core-developer, will join staff to work full-time on Bitcoin and contribute his knowledge on the core....
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Jeff Garzik is one of the most respected developers in the Bitcoin industry. He has been a Bitcoin core developer and has worked for various other companies, such as BitPay. Recently, he started his own blockchain-as-a-service firm, Bloq, which will serve enterprise clients who wish to develop stems on a private, public or confederated blockchain. In a recent discussion with Bitcoin Magazine, Garzik expressed his belief that, currently, blockchain technology is moving from Step Three to Step Four in a model he crafted. “Step One is digital currency, the very first use case of blockchain,”....
Friday means the weekend is almost upon us, and what better way to celebrate the weekend than by hosting a Bitcoin AMA with Jeff Garzik and Marshall Long? Starting a 9AM EST, Bitcoin Core Developer and DSS CEO Jeff Garzik will be taking your questions and answering them. At noon, the shift will change, and FinalHash’s CTO Marshall Long will take the....
Bitcoin core developers Jeff Garzik and Gavin Andresen have responded to Mt. Gox's claims that there is a flaw in the Bitcoin software. Mt. Gox issued a statement this morning (GMT), revealing it had suspended bitcoin withdrawals indefinitely due to a previously known technical issue with its custom wallet implementation of the Bitcoin core protocol. Garzik stressed that Mt. Gox seems to be attempting to shift the blame for its recent failings onto Bitcoin and its developers. "First and foremost, bitcoin is not broken. There is no fundamental flaw in bitcoin," said Garzik. The #bitcoin....