History of Bitcoin

Name: Rusty Russell Achievements: - 20 years of Free/Open Source Software development Linux network -   Advisor to  Linux Australia - Bip 9 version bits with timeout and delay with Pieter Wuille , Peter Todd & Gregory Fulton Maxwell - Implented high scalabiltiy - Lighting network Websites: https://r6.ca/blog/20180225T160548Z.html https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed875ea1fcc6c34ea232610c3041d0978e327bbe https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-corrosion-of-ethics-in-cryptocurrencies-f7ba77e9dfc3 https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-three-economic-eras-of-bitcoin-d43bf0cf058a?source=user_profile---------3---------------- https://github.com/rustyrussell https://rusty.ozlabs.org/ https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/ Rusty Russell Bitcoin adress: 1RustyR X2oai4EYYDpQGWvEL62BBGqN9T 

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/...