History of Bitcoin

Name: Luke DashJr Nationality: American Achievements - Began 2011 - The creator of Eligius, a bitcoin mining pool. -Maintainer of BFGMiner a modular ASIC, FPGA, GPU and CPU miner written in C, cross platform for Linux, Mac, and Windows including support for OpenWrt-capable routers. - Maintainer of the bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt stable branches. - Maintainer of desktop clients for payments.  - Multiwallet - Lost 446.12 btc on Mt Gox - Favourite games: LambdaMOO, Middle Earth mush, KidMud - Funded by Hard Core Fund ,Li Lin,Stefano Vettorazzi,Jameson Lopp,Milad Mostavi,Brooke Mallers,ShaunApps,mrj1984,2xic Brage,Danny Scott,Andreas Brekken,Neil Stanley,benflap,easonrevant,Jonathan Underwood,Stevie Zollo,Neil Saltug,James Morgan. Bip 2 BIP process revised(active) Bip 17 Consensus(soft fork OP_CHECKHASHVERIFT(CHV)(withdrawn) Bip 18 HashScriptCheck Bip 19 M-of_N Standard Transactions(Low SigOP) Bip 20 URI Scheme (Replaced) Bip 22 getblock template - funda...

Name:  Jeff"jgarzik" Garzik " It's just the early days of bitcoin. Bitcoin interests me as a base layer for enabling automated AI entities to function in the real world, hiring humans and running corporations via decentralized markets. " quote by Jeff Garzik Achievements: - Began developing bitcoin in July 2010 - 15 August 2010  Found a vulnerability in the Bitcoin system that caused Bitcoins to be improperly verified as it  was discovered and exploited, it resulted in the generation of 184 billion Bitcoins. - 14 September 2010 An offer was made by Garzik, in the name of the Bitcoin Store, to puddinpop to open source their Windows-based CUDA client. The offer was in the form of 10,000 BTC(600) USD. Which they agreed to 4 days later. - Sold out of Bitcoin, officially declared that he owned 348.006 btc 21 june 2014 - Founded Bitcoin Watch - Created the Python miner and library for Bitcoin. - Quit his job as Linux, GNOME, cloud coder at Red Hat, to d...

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: Marti "Sirius-m" Malmi - " Major thanks to Martti Malmi (sirius-m) for all his coding work and for hosting the new site and this forum " Personal thanks on the December 16, 2009 from Satoshi Nakamoto  - In 2009 Martti Malmi emailed Satoshi Nakamoto and offered to help develop Bitcoin. - First Administrator at BitcoinTalk, where he was the second registered member. - Made the Linux version of Bitcoin - Mined 55000 BTC on his laptop -  12 oct 2009 Created the first Bitcoin to Us Dollars transaction with NewLibertyStandard - sold 5050 BTC for 5.05 USD on PayPal. - Major contributor to new functions in Bitcoin 0.2 : - Minimize to system tray option - Autostart on boot option so you can keep it running in the background automatically - New options dialog layout for future expansion - Setup program for Windows - He ran his own bitcoin exchange for a little while, exchanging BTC for SEPA bank payments. - In October 2011 Martti Malmi offered a 100...

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...