Peter Todd

From CryptoWiki

  • Bitcoin Core, developer
  • Coinkite, advisor
  • Treechains, inventor
  • Viacoin, chief scientist and advisor on both the Viacoin core project and the decentralized smart contract platform ClearingHouse, which is being developed in tandem with Viacoin.
  • Colored coins (is a concept designed to be layered on top of Bitcoin, creating a new set of information about coins being exchanged. Using coloured coins, bitcoins could be "coloured" with specific attributes. This effectively turns them into tokens, which can be used to represent anything.)
  • Mastercoin, resigned when started working with Viacoin
  • MIT, prof
  • Told in 2013 basically what dev core is doing now in a Reddit post.
  • Has the support of Amir Taaki
  • Opentimestamps; creator and paying the fees out of his own pocket according to this paper (2019).