Andresen: Ethereum Won’t Replace Bitcoin, But it’s More Decentralized

Gavin Andresen raised eyebrows recently when he tweeted that Ethereum has more nodes now than bitcoin and that it will grow its lead as its block size exceeds bitcoin’s. Andresen, chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation and lead developer of Bitcoin until 2014, has raised concerns in the past about the bitcoin block size. He has noted the possibility that the bitcoin community could see exchanges, miners and merchants move to a highly centralized clearing agreement model. He believes that this will indicate an unhealthy bitcoin network that will be even slower, less reliable and more....

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....

In a recent blog post to GavinTech, Gavin Andresen admitted that he has recently been thinking about ethereum "a bit." Ethereum is a Bitcoin 2.0 project that is creating "a revolutionary new platform for applications." Vitalik Buterin, one of ethereum's founders, was recently awarded the Thiel Fellowship, a $100,000 fellowship awarded to 20 bright entrepreneurs around the world under the age of 20. Gavin revealed that he thinks some parts of ethereum, such as the new proof-of-work and new currency, are needlessly re-engineered while admitting particular interest in the development of smart....

When things get more complicated, and layer upon layer of functions and interacting smart contracts are built, the average user will no longer be able to make sense of it all. Despite all of the focus on the Ethereum ecosystem right now, one of the questions waiting to be answered is when the first project making great use of this protocol will come to fruition. Gavin Andresen is waiting for that project as well, and he feels how Ethereum smart contracts could potentially cause issues. It is important to note Gavin Andresen is not hostile towards Ethereum by any means. During a recent AMA....

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....