Sentences with phrase «blockstream cto»

In a post on the Bitcoin development mailing list today, Blockstream CTO and long - time Bitcoin Core contributor Greg Maxwell laid out the case that an unnamed Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer is using a flaw in Bitcoin's proof - of - work implementation to gain an efficiency advantage of up to 30 percent over other miners.

During a presentation in San Francisco a couple weeks back, Blockstream CTO and one of the most active Bitcoin Core developers Greg Maxwell seconded the notion that 0.15.0's focus had to do with preparing bitcoin for a SegWit - enabled capacity boost.

Blockstream CTO and Bitcoin Core contributor Greg Maxwell, who has worked heavily on the Confidential Transactions proposal, also recently shared some of his own thoughts related to SegWit on Litecoin during a presentation at the Coinbase headquarters in San Francisco.

This innovation was included as a centerpiece in Bitcoin's scaling roadmap, proposed by Blockstream CTO and Bitcoin Core contributor Gregory Maxwell right after the conference, and was endorsed by large parts of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

It names Blockstream CEO Adam Back and Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell (who is also a Core contributor) as inventors.

After years of debate over Bitcoin's effective transaction capacity limit, the plan for capacity increases that has gained the highest level of support from current Bitcoin Core contributors, bitcoin wallet providers and bitcoin miners was put forth by Blockstream CTO and Bitcoin Core contributor Gregory Maxwell in December of 2015.

When Bitcoin Core contributor and Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell challenged Ver regarding the testnet fork and the «consensus inconsistencies between Bitcoin «Classic» and other implementations are now causing Classic to reject the testnet chain with most work,» Ver pointed out, «We are testing on testnet.

For many Bitcoin Core contributors, such as Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell, the Lightning Network is the best option for scaling the Bitcoin network to millions of more users over the coming years.

This release includes a soft fork for CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY, which allows for relative locktimes and is hugely important for the development of the Lightning Network, which Blockstream CTO and Bitcoin Core contributor Greg Maxwell views as Bitcoin's best chance at handling increasing demand for Bitcoin transactions.

In a recent interview with Bitcoin Magazine, Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell shared his views on sidechains as a scalability solution and why the Lightning Network will be a better option over the long term.

In December 2015, Blockstream CTO and Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell wrote an email to a popular bitcoin developer list outlining various promising methods of boosting transaction capacity.

Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell and Bloq co-founder Jeff Garzik recently shared countering viewpoints (here for Maxwell and here for Garzik) on which solution will work best for Bitcoin.

And earlier this month, news was released on Bech32, a project co-developed by Bitcoin Core developer Pieter Wuille and Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell.

Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell argued that the code that introduced the bug didn't appear to have «peer review of any kind».

Not exact matches

In their responses, the panel of Ciphrex CEO and Bitcoin Core contributor Eric Lombrozo, Blockstream CEO Adam Back, JoinMarket developer Adam Gibson, applied cryptography consultant and sometimes Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd, SatoshiLabs CTO Pavol Rusnak, and Libbitcoin lead maintainer Eric Voskuil discussed the issues with the recent phenomenon of spinoff coins, a lack of understanding as to why Bitcoin is useful, and the fact that some of them sleep better today than they did in the early days of this new technology.

Through a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) draft sent to the Bitcoin development mailing list last week, long - time Bitcoin Core developer and Blockstream co-founder and CTO Gregory Maxwell revealed that a Bitcoin mining hardware producer implemented the patented «AsicBoost» technology in its chips.

Sidechain Elements includes functioning code and a testing environment for working with sidechains with several components: the core network software to build an initial testing sidechain, eight new features not currently supported by Bitcoin, a basic wallet and the code for moving coins between blockchains.Blockstream's CTO and Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell explains Sidechain Elements in a video on the Blockstream website.

Thanks go out to Blockstream co-founders Pieter Wuille and Mark Friedenbach, Ciphrex CEO Eric Lombrozo, and Blocktrail CTO Ruben de Vries for providing information and added feedback.

Maxwell, now a CTO at Blockstream, called the proposal a «fantastic idea», but suggested issues could arise should the issuers of the microSD cards compromise the system.