History of Bitcoin

Name :Gregory Fulton Maxwell Achievements: - Early Bitcoin miner - Linux expert and Mozilla firefox expert - Bitcoin core developer since May 05, 2011 - Founder Blockstream  - 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 - Received The Finney freedom prize 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  https://blockstream.com left 19 january 2018 https://coinjournal.net/greg-maxwell-hopes-to-have-a-sidechains-bip-ready-in-a-few-months/ https://coinjournal.net/bitcoin-core-developer-gregory-maxwell-on-why-altcoins-dont-work/ https://www.newsbtc.com/2016/08/...

Name: Pieter "sipa" Wuille " Not sure what you've given us Hal, but as it is only 256 bit, I doubt it's a private key ." Achievements: Joined BitcoinTalk December 17, 2010 Began developing February 2011 BIP 9: Version bits with timeout and delay BIP 30: Duplicate transactions(Supported since Bitcoin Core 0.10) BIP 32: Hierarchial deterministic wallets BIP 42: A finite monetary supply for Bitcoin(Draft) BIP 62: Dealing with malleability(Witdrawn) BIP 66: Strict DER signatures(Final) BIP 103: Block size following technological growth(Draft) BIP 141: Segregated witness(consensus layer)(Supported since Core 13.0) BIP 143: Transaction signature verification for version 0 witness program Bip 144 segregated witness(Supported since Core 13.0) BIP 146 Dealing with signature encoding malleability - Many hours of hard work and testing - Created segregated witness for Bitcoin improvement and better security - Uncovered a bug in OpenSSL - Founded Blo...