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In plain words
theymos: 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.
Background
- Bitcoin Forum (bitcointalk.org), Administrator
What is not known
Little reliable public data beyond his forum posts and profile.
Connections
- Gregory Maxwell: Co-signer of the 2-of-3 CoinJoin bounty escrow (2013)
- Pieter Wuille: Co-signer of the 2-of-3 CoinJoin bounty escrow (2013)
- Jeff Garzik: Both posted in the first hours of the block 74638 thread (Aug 2010)
In their own words
“This could be a serious problem. Bitcoin's printblock also shows it:” (15 Aug 2010, via bitcointalk)
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.
- Pieter WuillePieter 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.
- Jeff GarzikJeff 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.
References
- bitcointalk · theymos bitcointalk.org
- X · @theymos x.com
- bitcointalk.org bitcointalk.org
- bitcointalk.org bitcointalk.org
- bitcointalk.org bitcointalk.org