![]() ![]() While, in theory, anyone can contribute code to the BTC Core project, only those with commit access can incorporate that code into the actual BTC protocol. Wuille’s departure leaves only four individuals known to have commit access to the BTC code repository: Lead Developer Wladimir van der Laan, Marco Falke, Michael Ford, and Hennadii Stepanov. It just so happens I'm not doing much maintenance anymore, so it's time to drop my permissions. To be clear: I won't stop contributing to code, review, and all the projects I'm involved in. Wuille said he would remain a contributor to BTC Core and related projects, but would resign the power to maintain (or change) the code. In the early 2010s, Wuille worked for Google in Switzerland. He now works at New York-based BTC research and development firm Chaincode Labs. He also co-founded Blockstream with Adam Back in 2014 before leaving the company in 2020. Wuille is credited with some of BTC’s major code implementations, including segregated witness signatures ( SegWit), HD wallets, the libsecp256k1 code library, and most recently Taproot/Schnorr. He has contributed the most code to the BTC project after Satoshi Nakamoto. Hailing from Belgium, Wuille (aka “sipa”) has been a contributor and maintainer for the BTC project since 2011. Only four others can now execute changes to BTC’s working code, raising more questions about power centralization and maintainers’ legal liabilities. One of BTC Core’s longest-serving and most prolific code maintainers, Pieter Wuille, has announced he will resign his position.
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