Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik on Satoshi Nakamoto and the future of Bitcoin
Jeff Garzik could be considered one of the guardians of bitcoin. When we caught up with him, he had just finished working with others to stop a network-wide event - a DDoS attack that exploited some stray code in the reference bitcoin client (Bitcoind) to target certain parts of the cryptocurrency's distributed infrastructure. He became one of the core developers of the Bitcoin protocol after he began working on the project during its early days. He was involved in many of the early forum discussions with the mysterious Satoshi, and even exchanged a private email or two with him. CoinDesk....
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Last week, CoinDesk caught up with bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik about his perspective on Satoshi Nakamoto and the future of Bitcoin. This week, we reveal Garzik's thoughts on alternative digital currencies, ASIC miners, and getting everyday users on board for bitcoin. On altcoins. Some people do like the idea of including more features in the native protocol. Projects like Zerocoin have been looking for altcurrencies to adopt their technology for making a cryptocurrency truly anonymous, and when it comes to math-based currencies, Garzik is all for diversity. He's happy to see the....
While many people believe there is a divide in the Bitcoin community when it comes to the early-adopting libertarians and the new breed of venture capitalists, it seems that the real battle in the world of cryptocurrency is between Bitcoin and appcoins. Around the same time that Chris Odom, the creator of Open Transactions, was dismissing the relevance of altcoins at InsideBitcoins London, Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik was tied up in a public spat with the NXT community. As someone who has been suspicious of projects that create their own cryptocoins for quite some time, I'm happy to....
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....
Jeff Garzik, Bitcoin and former RHEL developer, has launched an enterprise blockchain technology startup, Bloq inc. The Company Operates in a similar way to Red Hat, except they develop blockchain tools and offer support for those technologies instead of Linux. This announcement comes at a critical point in the block size debate, suggesting the core developer expects non-bitcoin blockchain tech to be on the upswing in spite of the fallout from the Bitcoin Classic branch split. Garzik Takes Enterprise Linux Experience to the Blockchain. The utility of the blockchain is increasingly....
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....