History of Bitcoin

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Name: Johnathan Corgan Achievements: President of Corganlabs GNU Radio expert Bitcoin Core version 0.9.0 Bitcoin Core version 0.9.2 Bitcoin Core version 0.9.3 Bitcoin Core version 0.12.0 -   integration with ZeroMQ Bitcoin Core version  0.15.0 Bitcoin Core version  0.15.0.1   https://doclegend.com/download/bitcoin-wallets-by-johnathan-corgan_59df2e7ed64ab2e01de55874_pdf Websitez: https://www.corganlabs.com/ https://github.com/jmcorgan https://keybase.io/jcorgan https://www.gnuradio.org/author/jcorgan/ https://plus.google.com/116489477157318946059 Bitcoin address:  1Corgan8oxfywJt97mtMZa6ixXJSoZ s6AP

 Jude Mihon aka St. Jude " Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world ." Definiton of a  Cypherpunk A Cypherpunk is any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography as a route to social and political change. The cypherpunks were a group of individuals who emerged in the 1990s and were dedicated to promoting the use of strong encryption and privacy-enhancing technologies for individuals and businesses. The group's core philosophy was that individuals should have the right to protect their privacy, freedom of expression, and freedom of association. The cypherpunks believed that cryptography could be used to create a more secure and private internet, and that individuals should be able to communicate and trans...

Name: Pavol Rusnak - Creator of hardwarewallet Trezor BIP 39 Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys BIP 43 Purpose field for deterministic wallets(Draft) BIP 44 Multi Acount hieararchy for deterministic wallets(Draft) -Trezor support Tails - Founded Satoshi Labs Websites http://gk2.sk/ https://github.com/prusnak https://trello.com/prusnak

Name: Adam Back Achievements: - computer science PhD in distributed systems from the University of Exeter. - He invented the proof-of-work algorithm that is the foundation of Bitcoin’s security model - The proof-of-work system Hashcash, invented in 1997 is a system to eliminate spam in email - Bitcoin whitepaper Reference number 6 Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure - August 1, 2002 - Prefers the programming language C instead of C++ - implemented credlib, a library that implements the credential systems of Stefan Brands and David Chaum. - Joined BitcoinTalk 2013 and Bitcoin miner to late 2013 - Founded Blockstream  and ceo october 2016 - Was an applied crypography consultant to startups, worked for startups and bigger companies - Adam Back lost 108.45 Bitcoin on MT gox attack Websites: https://blockstream.com/ https://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/sets/blocksize-debate

Name : Wei Dai " I was very interested to read your b-money page, I am getting ready to release a paper that expands your idea. " Satoshi Nakamoto Achievements: - Graduate from the University of Washington in computer science - The creator of b-money in  November 1998 which described the ledger that later became the bitcoin blockchain - Created SHA256 implementation - Cypherpunk academic 9 and Extropian - Visual C++ programmer - Had a C++ library which Satoshi Nakamoto used - Began bitcoin mining in early 2011  - Identified critical Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) vulnerabilities affecting SSH2 - Discovered Browser exploit against SSL/TLS known as BEAST Bitcoin whitepaper Reference 1 Wei Dai, "b-money"  Website:   https://lesswrong.com/user/Wei_Dai/submitted Wei Dai's Home Page

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 :Jonas Schnelli Nationality :Swiss Achievements: Joined April 2013 - Creator hardware bitcoin wallet Digital bitbox - RPC Interface - The author of libbtc - BIP 150 Peer Authentication(Draft) - BIP 151 Peer-to-peer communivation encryption(Draft) - Bitcoin core maintainer until 21 October 2021 Bitcoin Core 0.82-19 Received funding from BitMain Websites: https://github.com/jonasschnelli https://digitalbitbox.com https://bitcoin.jonasschnelli.ch/ https://bitcoincore.org/en/team/ https://schweizermonat.ch/im-maschinenraum-einer-kryptowaehrung/

Name :Hal Finney May 4,1956-August 28 2014 Achievements: -In the beginning of the 1990`s he was writing about Digital currency. -The Creator of the Reusable Proofs of Work system in 2004. -A cypherpunk that developed the first secure version of PGP 2.0 -Skilled in the programming language C and software developer and cryptography expert -He was the second user of the bitcoin project. Was in contact with Satoshi Nakamoto on the cryptography mail list. -The first transaction of Bitcoin currency, in block 170, was made between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney. -Identified a double-spending attack within the bitcoin network named after him: Finney Attack Unfortunately in the end of 2009, Hal Finney was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis .Even when he was paralyzed, Hal Finney continued developing the bitcoin project. He began working on an experimental piece of code named bcflick, which used Trusted Computing to strengthen bitcoin wallets. Website: https://medium...