Gavin Andresen of the Bitcoin Foundation Responds to Mt. Gox Statement on Bitcoin 'Bug'
As expected, the Bitcoin Foundation has responded to Mt. Gox's claims this morning that a 'bug' in the bitcoin software is responsible for their halt of withdrawals, with a statement titled "Contrary to Mt. Gox's Statement, Bitcoin is not at fault" coming from Gavin Andresen. The statement opens up boldly: The issues that Mt. Gox has been experiencing are due to an unfortunate interaction between Mt. Gox's implementation of their highly customized wallet software, their customer support procedures, and their unpreparedness for transaction malleability, a technical detail that allows....
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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....
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 Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen has publicly voiced his support for the organisation's plan to focus solely on core development. In a new blog post, Andresen defended prior efforts to support core development and stated that the Bitcoin Foundation is just one of several organizations that provide funding for the oversight of the bitcoin protocol. The statements follow the Bitcoin Foundation's formal announcement of the plan, which will find it shedding its education, public policy and outreach operations, as well as the healthy debate about the organization's pivot that....