Gavin Andresen and Other Core Developers Join MIT's Digital Currency Initiative

Bitcoin core developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan have joined the MIT Digital Currency Initiative in full-time positions. While making the announcement via a blog post, Gavin stated that the developers collectively decided that MIT is the best place to continue their work on Bitcoin Core. Gavin Andresen is the co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation, an organization which was formed to benefit the Bitcoin ecosystem but has rather been mired in controversies. Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan have been formerly associated with the foundation as well. Gavin took....

The MIT Digital Currency Initiative is stepping up to take a larger role in bitcoin development, announcing today that core developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan have joined the project in a full-time capacity. Andresen, Fields and van der Laan had previously been supported financially by the Bitcoin Foundation, an industry trade group that has been in the midst of pivoting due to funding constraints. MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Brian Forde expressed his view that the move would help bring stability to developers, an environment he suggested had been....

Former lead developer and chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, Gavin Andresen, announced on a blog post that the three Bitcoin core developers who were funded by the Bitcoin Foundation, will join the MIT Media Lab's newly established Digital Currency initiative. Talking to CoinTelegraph, Digital Currency Initiative's head, Brian Forde, said: BitSIM, a dual-chip overlay that is physically placed atop a phone's regular SIM card, will turn your phone – even if it's a "dumb" phone – into a Bitcoin wallet. "The Digital Currency Initiative is not hosting a development NOR a standards body.....

In a recent e-mail to the Bitcoin core development mailing list, Gavin Andresen described the "worst of all possible worlds" for Bitcoin as being "no plan for how to scale up." Andresen appears to believe still that scaling is Bitcoin's only obstacle at the moment, regardless of how that must be achieved. If a fork to Bitcoin-XT is required, it seems that Andresen and others are willing to go along with that. Scaling seems to be on the minds of many core developers. Developers aside from Andresen, however, don't feel that the problem is as urgent as it's made to seem. Recently on Reddit,....

This situation becomes especially painful when considering how Satoshi Nakamoto himself appointed Gavin Andresen as being the one to take over the “reigns” of Bitcoin development Now that the Craig Wright debacle has calmed down again, there is still the pressing matter of what will happen with Gavin Andresen. After the Bitcoin Core team revoked his commit access, there seems to be no indication of restoring the Bitcoin developer to his precious status. A lot of people were surprised when Gavin Andresen of all people came forward and identified Craig Wright as being Satoshi Nakamoto. Even....