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A co-founder of one of the first Bitcoin exchanges has launched a website aimed at bringing back Bitcoin faucets, where users can earn Bitcoin by solving “CAPTCHA” tasks.
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Gavin Andresen News
Gavin Andresen is an American programmer who is the main software developer for the reference implementation of the Bitcoin client software. In 2010, after Satoshi Nakamoto had announced he would be leaving the project, Andresen took on a leading position by joining the core team. In 2012, Gavin Andresen founded the Bitcoin Foundation in order to find support for the development of virtual currency. Currently, he is the main research officer of the project. Andresen also has access to the special alert key that allows him to send messages about internal problems of the network to all its users. Gavin Andresen’s net worth is about $2 million, most of which is in Bitcoin. The support of Gavin Andresen behind Bitcoin Cash is currently a hotly debated subject, as he has published a comment on his Twitter describing BCH as the successor of his work on the BTC project.
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England's High Court of Justice delivered a heavy blow to Wright with a judgment that said he "lied to the court extensively and repeatedly."
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Bitcoin prices could reach $6 million per coin in 40 years’ time, but the whales may eventually pull the plug.
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It may sound shocking today, but in 2010, software developer Gavin Andresen was on a mission to give away free BTC in an effort to boost adoption.
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Questions from Gavin Andresen’s deposition that he probably should have asked Craig Wright.
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The list of witnesses submitted by the litigating parties in the Kleiman v. Wright case.
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Andresen makes some flattering comparisons between Satoshi Nakamoto and himself.
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Gavin Andresen laid doubts that Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto in recently released depositions.
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The block size debate is among the most contentious discourse in Bitcoin, having spawned numerous community rifts and contested proposals.
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Two of China's biggest bitcoin exchanges - BTCChina and Huobi - have voiced concerns over Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andresen's proposal to raise the block size limit to 20 megabytes by next year.
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The three Bitcoin core developers who were, up until now, funded by the Bitcoin Foundation will join the MIT Media Lab's newly established Digital Currency Initiative.
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