Who are the key developers, and where can I follow their progress and decision making?

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I want to follow the most up to date developments of Bitcoin, (such as M of N transaction confirmation).

Who are the primary developers of Bitcoin and what is the most efficient way to track the progress of this and similar activities?

I'm interested in reading either a detailed activity view, or a high level bullet point of key developments. Ideally someone would offer both information formats as an answer.

A nice summary view would include the following ideas and a status on testnet and on the production network:

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '12 at 08:21

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The core developers are listed on the main Bitcoin page, while everyone that contributed code are listed on the About page. Probably the most up-to-date info on what is happening with the code would be on the GitHub repo.

answered Dec 06 '12 at 08:21

ThePiachu

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Discussion on activities can be found on [SourceForge mailing list](http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development). – klemen Dec 06 '12 at 20:17
And the #bitcoin-dev IRC channel on Freenode. – Stephen Gornick Dec 08 '12 at 00:16

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 11 '12 at 21:05

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The progress is being tracked through the "Bitcoin Improvement Proposal". There is a grid of several new features that may or may not make it into a future version of the client.

Learn about the BIP submission process here

answered Dec 11 '12 at 21:05

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Improvements local to the reference client (or any client) that don't influence others will typically not be turned into BIPs. – Pieter Wuille Dec 12 '12 at 09:45

Who are the key developers, and where can I follow their progress and decision making?

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