History of Bitcoin

" I saw how the bitcoin developer community embraced me as a first-time contributor. They share knowledge. I like those people. I like to learn from them .” Name :Hennadii Stepanov Nationality: Ukrainian Website: https://github.com/hebasto 1098 Commits After having trouble with setting up a bitcoin node,   Stepanov began contributing to bitcoin development in 2018, he quit his university job after being s ponsored March 2020 by https://payvant.com/ +https://www.cardcoins.co/  Sponsored by thegreensea and kborovik Also received h ardware sponsorship Mac mini M1 from Gemini Bitcoin core maintainer  Contributions: Bitcoin core 0.18.1 Bitcoin core 0.19.1 Bitcoin donation address: 1q6975ckr5lfhp7ejz37qtpfjxjwazzw2dtzvwsj

Name: Michael "Fanquake" Ford Nationality : Australian Achievements Bitcoin Core maintainer 10 June 2019 -Contributor since 2012 -Bitcoin Core 0.7-   Donate: https://github.com/sponsors/fanquake    Sponsored by :  Bitmex Jameson Lopp Shakepay Bitcoin focus Bitaroo Websites: https://github.com/fanquake https://hectare.ag/

Name: Wladimir J van der Laan Nationality: Dutch Achievements: - Maintainer of bitcoin core releases - Wladimir`s 1st computer was a MSX & then Atari 1024ST, he learned GFA BASIC and STOS BASIC(game creator) - Began developing May 2011 - He took over from Gavin Andresen as Bitcoin`s core maintainer 8 April 2014 - Has made most commits to Bitcoin core( 7404) - Funding from MIT DCI - Has a phd in computer science specializing in graphics cards - Favourite games: Talos, SOMA, The Swapper ,Shadowrun returns, Life is strange, Discworld Bitcoin version 0.4.0 Bitcoin version 0.5.1 Bitcoin version 0.6 Bitcoin version 0.6.3 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.7.1 Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 Bitcoin Core 0.9 - 0.20.1 Websites: https://github.com/laanwj https://github.com/bitcoin https://github.com/p2p https://x0f.org/@orionwl  https://laanwj.github.io/