Gregory Fulton Maxwell

Name:Gregory Fulton Maxwell

Achievements:

- Early Bitcoin miner
- Linux expert and Mozilla firefox expert

- Bitcoin core developer since May 05, 2011

 - Joined BitcoinTalk Mid 2012

- The architect of the two-way peg which made sidechains possible.
- Privacy-preserving techniques :CoinJoin and blinded proof of solvency.
-  Uncovered a bug in OpenSSL
Bip 9 version bits with timeout and delay(Supported since Core 12.1)
BIP 32 homomorphic key derivation


Bitcoin version 0.5.0
Bitcoin version 0.6.3
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2
Bitcoin Core 8.4
Bitcoin Core 9.0
Bitcoin Core 11.0
Bitcoin Core 13.1
Bitcoin Core 13.2
Bitcoin Core 16.0
Cofounder of http://blockstream.com/ left 19 january 2018
http://coinjournal.net/greg-maxwell-hopes-to-have-a-sidechains-bip-ready-in-a-few-months/
http://coinjournal.net/bitcoin-core-developer-gregory-maxwell-on-why-altcoins-dont-work/
http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/08/17/gregory-maxwell-vitalik-buterin-ran-quantum-computer-scam/

Maxwell lost 928.96 btc on gox