Gregory Maxwell News

Gregory Maxwell is a co-founder and current chief technology officer of Blockstream and a developer of Bitcoin Core since 2011. Blockstream is a firm that specializes on blockchain technology development and is one of the main contributors to Bitcoin Core, founded in 2014. Before Gregory Maxwell came to Blockstream, he worked at the Mozilla Foundation where he was a participant of Daala video compression and Opus audio codec development, and was an early contributor to Wikipedia. Maxwell is an architect of the two-way peg and is currently occupied with development of Confidential Transactions for Blockstream. Gregory Maxwell is famous in cryptocurrency development society for his reviews of cryptographic protocol initiatives for Bitcoin. Today, Gregory is considered one of the main Bitcoin and blockchain experts and is often invited to cryptocurrency talks and events.

Analysis

Charlie Lee: Hard Work of Bitcoin Developers Directly Benefits Litecoin

NOV 17, 2017
by Joseph Young

Most innovative works done by Bitcoin developers and projects directly benefit Litecoin given the structural similarities between Bitcoin and Litecoin.

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Hype

Bitcoin Dev Greg Maxwell: I’d Pay To Prove Craig Wright ‘Fraud’

OCT 05, 2017
by William Suberg

Greg Maxwell has said he is willing to fly to Australia with his own money to prove Craig Wright is a “fraud.”

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Bitcoin Satellites? Blockstream Hints at “Coming” First Release

AUG 14, 2017
by William Suberg

Blockstream has hinted its flagship product will involves satellites upon release, leading to industry-wide speculation.

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Bitcoin Scaling: Jeff Garzik AsicBoost Comments Lead to Frustration

JUN 02, 2017
by William Suberg

Bitcoin Core developer Jeff Garzik has sparked contention with a post asking if further measures were needed to prevent covert AsicBoost.

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Unrealistic Timeframe: Bitcoin Core Developers Criticize Bitcoin Scaling Agreement

MAY 25, 2017
by Joseph Young

Bitcoin Core developers have criticized the Bitcoin Scaling Agreement presented by Digital Currency Group and 56 other companies that represent approximately 83...

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Greg Maxwell: Bitcoin’s SegWit ‘Redeployment’ Has To Wait

MAY 23, 2017
by William Suberg

SegWit cannot occur on Bitcoin in its full capacity until the current deployment expires, Greg Maxwell has said.

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Former Bitcoin Core’s Gavin Andresen Hits Blockstream, Labels Greg Maxwell and Samson Mow

MAY 03, 2017
by William Suberg

Resentment among senior Bitcoin figures continues as Gavin Andresen calls former co-developer Greg Maxwell and Samson Mow “toxic trolls.”

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How Greg Maxwell Exploited Bitcoin Unlimited in Every Way Possible

APR 13, 2017
by Joseph Young

Segregated Witness (Segwit) support has been on the rise ever since the disclosure of the covert usage of AsicBoost by Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell.

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Bitcoin Unlimited Second Bug Sees Closed-Source Code Release

MAR 22, 2017
by William Suberg

Bitcoin Unlimited succumbed to a second bug Tuesday which developers appeared to fix with non-open source code.

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Controversy Over Bitcoin Forum Funds Involves Greg Maxwell, Warren Togami, Theymos and Blockstream

OCT 07, 2016
by Joseph Young

Greg Maxwell is a target of a recent online Bitcoin community controversy that originates in an alleged connection between Theymos and a Blockstream employee.

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5 Major Reasons Why Monero Has Spiked

SEP 02, 2016
by Joseph Young

Monero (XMR), a privacy-focused open source cryptocurrency, has agitated the digital currency community after demonstrating a nearly 100% increase in price over...

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Cypherpunks Controversial Vision for Bitcoin Scalability

APR 28, 2016
by Andrew Quentson

With the increasing adoption of Bitcoin, cypherpunks have once again risen to prominence.

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Could Full-Node Incentive Help Solve the Blocksize Debate?

SEP 21, 2015
by Barry Dolphin

For a cryptocurrency to function requires more than just a network of miners. It also requires nodes to propagate messages, serve the blockchain and provide sec...

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Miners Lost Over $50,000 from the Bitcoin Hardfork Last Weekend

JUL 09, 2015
by Guest Author

This past weekend, bitcoin miners lost up to US$50,000 as the Bitcoin network was affected by the generation of invalid blocks due to the appearance of two sepa...

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Blockstream Creates ‘Confidential Transactions’ to Boost Bitcoin Security

JUN 23, 2015
by Evander Smart

Using the latest cryptography, Blockstream has created Confidential Transactions de-signed to improve Bitcoin’s user security by keeping the amounts sent visibl...

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