Wladimir van der Laan: “There is Something Truly Fishy Going On”
Moreover, there is a grave concern regarding the amount of scammers and opportunists Bitcoin has attracted in the past few years. Wladimir van der Laan, one of the Bitcoin Core developers, has shared his thoughts with the world on recent Satoshi Nakamoto debacle. He strongly feels there is something”truly fishy” is going on, and Bitcoin has attracted opportunists of all kinds in the past. Wladimir van der Laan on Bitcoin and Bitcoin Core. As one would come to expect from one of the lead Bitcoin Core developers, Van der Laan starts off by stating how the Bitcoin development industry is a....
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Gavin Andresen - certainly a notable name in the bitcoin space. Andresen has been serving as the lead developer for the Bitcoin Core, and also as the "Chief Scientist" at the Bitcoin Foundation. But Andresen is handing over the 'Bitcoin Core Maintainer' torch to Wladimir van der Laan in order to "focus more on protocol-level, cross-implementation issues and less on issues specific to the Bitcoin Core software." According to Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan is been working on the Bitcoin Core in a paid role for several months. "Wladimir first got involved with the Bitcoin project by....
Bitcoin has a new lead developer, Wladimir van der Laan, and with the ecosystem growing every day he is going to have a lot on his hands over the next year. We asked Van der Laan what major issues affecting the bitcoin core are on his radar. Here are his four main priorities: 1. Splitting off the Bitcoin-Qt wallet from the P2P core code. At the moment, the core functions of the bitcoin client, processing new transactions and maintaining the history of old transactions, share the space as information about the wallet you set up using the client. When you download Bitcoin-Qt, the official....
"One thing is clear: this is a serious project now, and we need to start taking decentralization seriously," said Wladimir van der Laan.
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....
Bitcoin Core has announced a new sponsorship program, a move that finds the largely volunteer community that develops the open-source bitcoin software opening its development process up to funding from industry stakeholders. The announcement comes weeks after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a $900,000 support fund aimed at promoting bitcoin development. In that instance, however, the funds are being directed to three specific developers – Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan. In interview, Van der Laan, the project's lead maintainer told CoinDesk that....