Coinkite Taps Bitcoin Developer Peter Todd For Advisory Role
Bitcoin debit card provider Coinkite has announced that bitcoin core developer Peter Todd and forex trading veteran Nooshin Mohtashami will join the company in key advisory roles. Todd will serve as Coinkite's 'Chief Naysayer', helping the company review its infrastructure and business practices, while Mohtashami will join the company's advisory board. Noted for his work as a bitcoin developer, Todd is perhaps best known for his involvement with so-called 'Bitcoin 2.0' projects like Counterparty, Mastercoin and Colored Coins. He told CoinDesk that he was drawn to the project, in part,....
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Core developer Peter Todd is known for his forthright ideas on how to improve the security and stability of bitcoin, while staying true to the technology's decentralised roots. An avid Twitter user and conference regular, Todd has worked on everything from off-chain transactions and privacy-enhancing stealth addresses to '2.0' projects like Viacoin, Counterparty and coloured coins. In this video, he discusses his first experiences with bitcoin and precursor Hashcash and I ask how centralisation, regulation and scalability might shape bitcoin's future. View the full video interview below:....
Developer Peter Todd has caused quite a stir in the community by committing a double spend on Coinbase. Taking $10 from the company and buying Jeremy Gardner of the Augur project some reddit gold. Todd admitted to the action via Twitter and GitHub with the crack he created. At this time, Gardner says he and Todd were conversing, and Todd had decided to “make a point about security in the industry” Gardner goes on to say that he had succeeded on his first try and was able also to snap a screenshot of the action. Many people in the community went crazy on Twitter following this announcement.....
Bitcoin Core developer and current Coinkite advisor Peter Todd has been hired by the Viacoin development team to work on a Bitcoin 2.0 technology concept. Todd will serve as chief scientist and advisor on both the Viacoin core project and the decentralized smart contract platform ClearingHouse, which is being developed in tandem with Viacoin. The primary focus of his work will be treechains, a concept created by Todd that allows for block chain scalability and side-chain coordination. Furthermore, treechains promote a greater degree of mining decentralization - a key issue facing the....
What is the one thing we have noticed about most altcoins? The need for developers is a demanding and never ending. Fortunately, ViaCoin has been showing an incredible ability of hiring developers who are regarded very highly in the cryptocurrency community. ViaCoin recently hired Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer, and creator TreeChains, and Stealth Addresses. Peter is quite an influence in the cryptocurrency world as he is an advisor at Coinkite as well. It should be mentioned that he used to work closely with MasterCoin, but has announced that he is no longer involved with that coin.....
When it seems like opening its Blockchain to all is the right thing for R3 consortium to do, considering all that it has endured in the month of November, Bitcoin Core Developer and Advisor to Coinkite, Peter Todd, cites that it has similarities with Bitcoin. R3 today announced that it has made the Corda distributed ledger platform open source so that it may grant the global developer community universal access to its source code. It is hoped that this will encourage collaboration and contribution from developers, and provide a review of the platform. The idea is to enable more companies....