Gavin Andresen

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Gavin Andresen is a software developer known for his involvement in Bitcoin . He is based in Amherst , Massachusetts .

Originally a developer of 3D graphics and virtual reality software, he became involved in the development of products for the Bitcoin market in 2010 and was named by Satoshi Nakamoto as the lead developer of the reference implementation of the Bitcoin client software after Satoshi Nakamoto took over Had announced his resignation. In 2012 he established the Bitcoin Foundation to support and promote the development of the Bitcoin currency.

Gavin Andresen at the 2014 Web Summit

Career

Andresen graduated from Princeton University in 1988 . He began his career working on 3D graphics software at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems. In 1996 he co-authored the VRML 2.0 specification and later published a reference manual for VRML 2.0.

Since leaving Silicon Valley in 1996, Andresen has embarked on a variety of software-related endeavors, including CTO of an early voice-over-the-internet startup and co-founder of a company that developed multiplayer online games for the blind and their sighted friends .

Bitcoin

Andresen was the lead developer for part of the Bitcoin digital currency project, working on creating a safe, stable "cash for the Internet".

He discovered Bitcoin in 2010 and thought the design was brilliant. Soon after, he created a website called The Bitcoin Faucet that gave away bitcoins.

In April 2011 Forbes magazine quoted Andresen as saying, "Bitcoin should bring us back to a decentralized people's currency".

After joining the developers who contributed to Bitcoin along with Satoshi Nakamoto, he became the lead developer of the client software for the Bitcoin network now known as Bitcoin Core . In 2014 he resigned as a lead developer.

Andresen also created ClearCoin , a type of escrow service that closed on June 23, 2011. He conceived the Bitcoin Foundation , which became a reality in 2012.

In May 2016, Andresen stated that Australian programmer and entrepreneur Craig Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto, but later regretted having participated in the 'who is Satoshi' game.

Andresen has not contributed to Bitcoin Core since February 2016. He was critical of Bitcoin developers' failure to increase network capacity and helped develop Bitcoin XT as an alternative software. His commit access to Bitcoin Core on GitHub was revoked in May 2016 after he declared that Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto.

In November 2017 Andresen expressed his support for the competing currency Bitcoin Cash and stated: "Bitcoin Cash is what I started to work on in 2010".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nathaniel Popper: A Bitcoin Believer's Crisis of Faith (en-US) . In: The New York Times , January 14, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2019. 
  2. ↑ VRML 2.0 .
  3. ^ The Annotated VRML 2.0 Reference Manual .
  4. ↑ a b The Man Who Really Built Bitcoin. Retrieved April 26, 2020 (English).
  5. ^ Crypto Currency . Forbes. April 20, 2011. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  6. ↑ Caroline Davies: Craig Wright: skepticism surrounds bitcoin inventor's identification (en-GB) . In: The Guardian , May 2, 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2019. 
  7. ↑ Joe Mullin: Craig Wright promises “extraordinary proof” that he is Satoshi, coming soon ( en-us ) May 4, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  8. ↑ Satoshi . November 16, 2016. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  9. ↑ HAL 90210: Bitcoin project blocks out Gavin Andresen over Satoshi Nakamoto claims (en-GB) . In: The Guardian , May 6, 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2019. 
  10. ↑ Timothy B. Lee: Bitcoin rival doubles in price in four days as Bitcoin price slumps ( en-us ) November 12, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Andresen, Gavin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Software developer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century