Andresen Denies Hacking as GitHub Access Limited
Amid speculation surrounding Dr. Craig Wright’s claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, Core developer Gavin Andresen has lost his Bitcoin commit privileges on GitHub. Andresen earlier released a blog entry stating his belief that Wright is the man behind the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym, which caused immediate controversy, with many suspecting Andresen had been....
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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....
Gavin Andresen, chief scientist at the Bitcoin Core Foundation and former chief developer of the Bitcoin source code had his commit access revoked recently. The move, a collective one taken by Bitcoin Core developers, left Andresen without any administrator or commit privileges after publicly backing Craig Wright’s claim that he was Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s creator. If it were left to Bitcoin Core dev Wladimir J. van der Laan and “many others” from the team, Gavin Andresen’s access would stay revoked. In a personal blog post, Bitcoin Core developer van der Laan has stated that removing....
A bigger question is whether or not the Turkish government will block access to Bitcoin platforms in the future. It is becoming evident they want nothing more than wall-off the Internet as China is doing. Turkey is on the road to blocking a lot of popular online services. Internet users can no longer access OneDrive, GitHub, and DropBox. This artificial blockade has gone into effect as of last Saturday, and there is no indication as to how long how it will last. It may only be a matter of time until the government turns its attention towards Bitcoin services. According to unconfirmed....
Despite the fact that Gavin Andresen just yesterday announced that he was stepping down as the bitcoin core maintainer, it doesn't mean he has to stop talking about new releases of the software at the core of this technology. In the wake of the major news that a critical bug in the OpenSSL encryption library has been discovered, the web has been abuzz (as has the bitcoin community). A number of exchanges affected have even started reacting by disabling systems until a fix is in place. On Tuesday afternoon, Andresen tweeted that the next release of the bitcoin core, 0.9.1, can be expected....
Gavin Andresen has been a part of the Bitcoin community since the very beginning. As one of the earliest contributors Satoshi’s original code, Andresen was entrusted with the Bitcoin protocol before Bitcoin’s creator disappeared. Now, following the Craig Wright controversy, Andresen will have to fight to get his commit access back after having it stripped by fellow Core developers. Andresen raised eyebrows for the first time when he met with the Central Intelligence Agency, in order to brief them on the nascent Bitcoin and blockchain technology, a meeting that he attributes to possibly....