Questions tagged [gavin-andresen]
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What are the implications of Schnorr signatures?
Adam Back (adam3us) explained in March, 2014, but it is all math. There's another short post with advantages, though.
This answer on crypto.SE claims that Bitcoin considered using Ed25519 which is based on Schnorr signatures, but decided against it.…
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Who made Gavin project leader?
I mean no disrespect to Gavin Andresen whatsoever. I think someone needs to be at the head of the project and Satoshi has stepped down / disappeared / gone back to the NSA / returned to his home planet / choose your conspiracy theory.
But why Gavin?…
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What does TruCoin do?
I just saw that Gavin is employed with a company called TruCoin. Any idea what does it actually do besides help develop and QA the bitcoin client?
The about page (odd URL) doesn't explain it much.
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