21 BTCPieter Wuille
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In plain words
Pieter Wuille: 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.
Background
- Chaincode Labs, Bitcoin research and development
- Blockstream, co-founder (2014)
- libsecp256k1, minisketch, bitcoin-seeder, Miniscript (author/co-author)
- Formerly Google and KU Leuven's DTAI group (X bio)
- “code efficiency, applied cryptography, coding & information theory, P2P networking” (his website)
Connections
- Gregory Maxwell: Blockstream co-founders; BIP32 credits Maxwell's type-2 wallet idea; co-authors of several papers
- Adam Back: Blockstream co-founders (2014); co-authors of Confidential Assets
- theymos: Co-signers of the CoinJoin bounty escrow (2013)
In their own words
“Here are two BIP drafts that specify a proposal for a Taproot softfork.” (6 May 2019, via bitcoin-dev mailing list)
See also
- Gregory MaxwellGregory Maxwell: 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.
- Adam BackAdam Back: Inventor of Hashcash, cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper; co-founder and CEO of Blockstream. Cypherpunk and cryptographer. In 1997 he proposed Hashcash, the proof-of-work that Bitcoin mining uses. In 2008 Satoshi emailed him before publishing the whitepaper, and he pointed Satoshi to Wei Dai's b-money. In 2024 he testified in COPA v Wright.
- theymostheymos: Administrator of the Bitcoin Forum (bitcointalk.org). One of the earliest members of the Bitcoin forum (member #35, February 2010), now its Administrator. On 15 August 2010, minutes after the first report about block 74638, he replied: “This could be a serious problem.” In 2013 he was one of three signers of the CoinJoin bounty escrow, together with Gregory Maxwell and Pieter Wuille.
References
- wuille.net wuille.net
- GitHub · sipa github.com
- X · @pwuille x.com
- github.com github.com
- gnusha.org gnusha.org
- wuille.net wuille.net
- bitcointalk.org bitcointalk.org