Peter Wuille has surrendered his maintenance permissions but will continue contributing to various Bitcoin projects.Read MoreFeedzy
Belgian-born Bitcoin Core developer Peter Wuille is scaling back his contributions to Bitcoin Core. Nevertheless, he will continue contributing code to the project and remains a key player in the Bitcoin ecosystem, given both his influence in the Bitcoin community and his role at Chaincode Labs.
Bitcoin Core is the primary implementation of the Bitcoin software that connects to the blockchain. Open-source developers provide vital research, peer review, testing and documentation. A small group with commit access can directly access Bitcoin Core’s code in order to merge new code changes.
Up until now, Wuille was part of this smaller group. With his departure, only four developers remain with commit access: Wladimir J. van der Laan, Marco Falke, Michael Ford and Hennadii Stepanov.
He made the request to remove his key from the set of trusted keys through the Bitcoin GitHub on Thursday.
Wuille has made thousands of contributions to Bitcoin Core since 2011, most notably Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 32, which introduced seed phrases for storing and recovering private keys more easily; Segregated Witness (SegWit) which provided a new, efficient way of storing data in blocks; and, more recently, Taproot (BIPs 340, 341 and 342), which provided developers with a valuable set of tools to integrate new features that will improve privacy, scalability and security.
Over the past year and a half, several Bitcoin developers and maintainers have chosen to leave their various roles, including John Newbery, Samuel Dobson and Jonas Schnelli.
Update: Thursday, July 7, 2022 23:05 UTC: Adds information about Wuille’s Bitcoin contributions.
DISCLOSURE
Please note that our privacy policy, terms of use, cookies, and do not sell my personal information has been updated.
The leader in news and information on cryptocurrency, digital assets and the future of money, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. As part of their compensation, certain CoinDesk employees, including editorial employees, may receive exposure to DCG equity in the form of stock appreciation rights, which vest over a multi-year period. CoinDesk journalists are not allowed to purchase stock outright in DCG.
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Maxi Jack Dorsey Unveils New Open Source Group Chat App Tech entrepreneur…
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin is NOT Changed by Proof Of Node You might have heard about…
BTC has rebounded 15% from the July lows, but some analysts cautioned that the next…
The crypto financial services firm is funding developers to strengthen the blockchain's security before quantum…
Claude Fabel 5 disproved the Jacobian conjecture over the weekend, landing days after the capabilities…
Bitcoin Magazine Hyperscale Data Buys More Bitcoin, Bridging Holdings to Over $72 million Hyperscale Data,…