Pieter Wuille · life event
2021-11-14 primary
📌 Taproot activates at block 709,632
Pieter Wuille
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Bitcoin Core developer; author of BIP32 and co-author of SegWit, Schnorr and Taproot; Blockstream co-founder; now at Chaincode Labs
Author of BIP32, the hierarchical deterministic wallets behind today's seed phrases, and co-author of BIP141 (SegWit), BIP340 (Schnorr signatures) and BIP341 (Taproot). He proposed Taproot on the bitcoin-dev list on 6 May 2019; it activated at block 709,632 in November 2021. Blockstream's 2014 post lists him among its co-founders; his website says he now does Bitcoin research and development at Chaincode Labs.
Joined: 2012-02-11 · BIP32 (HD wallets), which he authored, is assigned, 11 Feb 2012 · github.com ↗ primaryLocation: New York (his public GitHub profile) · github.com ↗ primary
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Pieter Wuille
2019-05-06 17:58 UTC · via bitcoin-dev mailing list ↗ primary
“Here are two BIP drafts that specify a proposal for a Taproot softfork.”
Pieter Wuille · life event
2015-12-21 primary
📌 BIP141 Segregated Witness (co-author) is assigned
Pieter Wuille · life event
2014-11-17 primary
📌 Co-founds Blockstream; $21M seed round announced
Pieter Wuille · life event
2012-02-11 primary
📌 BIP32 “Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets” is assigned
It credits Gregory Maxwell “for the original idea of type-2 deterministic wallets”.