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2014-11-17 primary
📌 Co-founds Blockstream; $21M seed round announced
Gregory Maxwell
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Early Bitcoin developer; proposed CoinJoin (2013); co-founder of Blockstream (2014)
In June 2011 he argued on the forum that Bitcoin should default to deterministic wallets; BIP32 later credits him with “the original idea of type-2 deterministic wallets”. In August 2013 he proposed CoinJoin for on-chain privacy. Blockstream's 2014 seed-round post lists him among its co-founders.
Joined: 2011-05-05 · Registered on the Bitcoin forum, 5 May 2011 · bitcointalk.org ↗ primary
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Gregory Maxwell
2013-08-22 02:32 UTC · via bitcointalk ↗ primary
Opening of “CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world”
“Bitcoin is often promoted as a tool for privacy but the only privacy that exists in Bitcoin comes from pseudonymous addresses which are fragile and easily compromised…”
Gregory Maxwell
2011-06-18 21:27 UTC · via bitcointalk ↗ primary
“Bitcoin really ought to offer and default to using deterministic wallets.”