Andresen’s Commit Access Hangs in Balance Following Wright Exit
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....
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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....
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....
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....
Perhaps the biggest casualty of this week’s Satoshi Nakamoto/Craig Wright fiasco has been Gavin Andresen. But has the Bitcoin community been fair to one of its hardest workers? Once one of the bitcoin community’s most respected heroes, Andresen’s confirmation that he was “convinced beyond a reasonable doubt” that Wright was indeed Satoshi has resulted in....
Citing fears of a hack that may have resulted in an account compromise, Bitcoin Core members have revoked the commit access belonging to Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andersen. Monday began with the collective dramatic explosion of news that Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright publicly claimed that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin. He provided what he saw fit as evidence for the claim on his own blog, along with three separate media interviews (More on that here.) One bitcoin core developer, also the Bitcoin Foundation’s chief scientist – Gavin Andersen, even....