Who Wrote the Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade?

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When it comes to evaluating crucial developments in Bitcoin, the contributions of developers- Wuille, Towns, Ruffing, and Jonas- in making the Taproot happen cannot be overlooked. Learn more about them here- 

Meet the Developers Behind the Taproot Upgrade

Pieter Wuille

• Key contributor to all three Taproot proposals and lead role in the process.

• Prolific contributor to Bitcoin Core since 2010.

• Major contributor to Segregated Witness (SegWit).

• Co-founded Blockstream in 2014, moved to Chaincode Labs in 2020.=

Jonas Nick

• Developer at Blockstream since 2015.

• Works on libsecp256k1, a cryptographic library used in Bitcoin Core.

• Researches and implements cryptographic schemes like MuSig2 for Taproot.

• Co-author on all three Taproot BIPs.

Tim Ruffing

• Cryptographer at Blockstream with a Ph.D. in computer science from Saarland University.

• Co-author of BIP 340.

Anthony Towns

• Co-author of BIPs 341 and 342.

• Advocate for Bitcoin decentralization, focusing on stability and security.

• Recently joined the Digital Currency Initiative to lead Bitcoin software and security efforts.

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