Gregory Maxwell: How I Went From Bitcoin Skeptic to Core Developer
Bitcoin holds a lot of promise as a decentralized currency, but there are many technical issues to be tackled as adoption increases. No one knows this better than core developer Gregory Maxwell, who has been contributing to bitcoin's software since the early days. A long time open-source and cryptography advocate, Maxwell was an early contributor to Wikipedia and worked for the Mozilla Foundation. He is now a co-founder of Blockstream, which has raised $21m with ambitious plans to push forward the development of bitcoin to better secure its future. Maxwell recently talked to CoinDesk at....
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Former Bitcoin Core developer and current R3 employee, Mike Hearn, has claimed that Blockstream – a blockchain-based startup comprised by a group of Bitcoin core developers is the source of the refusal behind Bitcoin’s block size increase. He also cites that Bitcoin’s “leader” is Blockstream co-founder and CTO, Gregory Maxwelll. In a post made on a public forum today, Hearn directly asserts that Blockstream co-founder and CTO Gregory Maxwell – also a Bitcoin Core developer – is the reason for the refusal to “bump” Bitcoin’s block size. Beyond the revelation, Hearn directly calls Maxwell a....
The Bitcoin block size debate is still far from over, as a new capacity increases page with initial signatures has been posted on GitHub very recently. Quite a few prominent names in the Bitcoin industry have all signed the roadmap, including Charlie Lee, Cory Fields, Gregory Maxwell, and, surprisingly enough, Theymos. Whether or not a consensus can be reached regarding this proposal, remains to be seen, though. The proposal in question was penned down by Gregory Maxwell after the recent Scaling Bitcoin Workshop in Hong Kong, which took place in early December 2014. With so many new,....
With the increasing adoption of Bitcoin, cypherpunks have once again risen to prominence. As Gregory Maxwell and Peter Todd, self-proclaimed cypherpunks, and Adam Back, the inventor of Hashcash, pave a path for BitcoinCT r: 8, their vision highlights a cautious approach in an attempt to not repeat the mistakes of the 90s. Are they right or are they about to repeat the precise mistakes they wish to avoid? Gregory Maxwell, one of the five core Bitcoin developers until recently, revealed in a post two months ago that he and Todd had a long history with Bitcoin. Maxwell says: “In 2001 Peter....
Bitcoin Core Developer and the Blockstream co-founder Gregory Maxwell explained how altcoins are distracting resources that could have been utilized to improve Bitcoin. The celebrated techie, who was attending the launch of their pet project, the Sidechain Elements, criticized altcoins muddling the Bitcoin sector by creating an inessential competition. "I think the 2.0 space has, frankly, screwed up the 1.0 space by distracting talent, diverting money, misallocating infrastructure," he explained. "And most of all, [it has confused] our message to the public (regarding bitcoin's ability to....