21 BTCJeff Garzik
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In plain words
Jeff Garzik: Early Bitcoin developer (from 2010); earlier a Linux kernel developer. Joined the Bitcoin forum in July 2010. On 15 August 2010 he started the forum thread about the “strange” block 74638. It turned out to be the value-overflow bug: one transaction created just over 92 billion BTC on each of two addresses, and it was fixed within hours. His forum signature describes him as Bloq CEO and a former member of the Bitcoin Core dev team.
Background
- Linux kernel developer (early years), per his X bio: “Prev: early #Linux kernel, #Bitcoin Core.”
- Bitcoin Core developer (former)
- Bloq, CEO (forum signature: “Jeff Garzik, Bloq CEO, former bitcoin core dev team”)
- Hemi (“network plumber @hemi_xyz”, X bio)
What is not known
No Wikipedia article and no verified education record; we show only what he states publicly and his forum posts.
Connections
- theymos: Both posted in the first hours of the block 74638 value-overflow thread (Aug 2010)
In their own words
“The "value out" in this block #74638 is quite strange:” (15 Aug 2010, via bitcointalk)
See also
References
- X · @jgarzik x.com
- GitHub · jgarzik github.com
- bitcointalk · jgarzik bitcointalk.org
- bitcointalk.org bitcointalk.org
- bitcointalk.org bitcointalk.org