Gavin Andresen
From CryptoWiki
- Profession: Programmer
- He helped program bitcoin code together with Satoshi Nakamoto and is one of the most prominent members of the bitcoin community. So much so, that he has access to the alert key that allows him to broadcast messages about critical network problems to all Bitcoin clients. Control of the source code repository and the alert key was handed down from Satoshi to Andresen before disappearing.
- Back in ocotber 2014, Gavin created a Scalability Roadmap up to 20mb blocksizes
- Bitcoin Foundation, founder, board of directors, chief scientist
- ClearCoin, founder, an escrow-type of service, which was closed c. June 23, 2011
- Digital Currency Group, board member
- Bloq, board of advisors
- MIT, Digital Currency Initiative pays him
