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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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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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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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6996Ex-Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andresen has said Bitcoin Unlimited should be run as the “viable” solution to network scaling problems.
1896Gavin Andresen expressed his negative feelings about Bitcoin Core known after a miner with a node running Bitcoin Unlimited lost $12,000 through a bug. Roger Ver has hit back.
2260Cointelegraph has created a fun gallery of Kawaii-style portraits of the most influential people in Blockchain. Have a beer and have a look!
974Gavin Andresen graces us with an appearance as an expert on Bitcoin. He has worked on the project in some way or other since 2010 and is still one of its best-known figures.
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