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3 days ago · On June 12, 2010, Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen launched the Bitcoin faucet website. That same year, he gave away 19,700 bitcoins to users who did nothing more than solve a captcha.
1 day ago · Blockchain analysts estimate that Nakamoto had mined about one million bitcoins [20] before disappearing in 2010 when he handed the network alert key and control of the code repository over to Gavin Andresen. Andresen later became lead developer at the Bitcoin Foundation, [21][22] an organization founded in September 2012 to promote bitcoin. [23] After early "proof-of-concept" transactions ...
2 days ago · The Lightning Network was proposed in 2015 as a potential solution to scaling issues, promising faster transactions. While innovations such as the Lightning Network made transactions much quicker, Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn wanted to raise the limit on block size to 20 MB.
5 days ago · While Nakamoto was the original inventor, he handed control of the Bitcoin code to developer Gavin Andresen. Since then, hundreds of developers have contributed to improving Bitcoin’s software and helping scale the network.
3 days ago · However, while Nakamoto was the original inventor of Bitcoin, as well as the author of its very first implementation, he handed the network alert key and control of the code repository to Gavin Andresen, who later became lead developer at the Bitcoin Foundation.
1 day ago · Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving since 2019 as the 40th governor of California. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
3 days ago · A Cloud A Day is a beautifully illustrated book containing 365 skies selected by the Cloud Appreciation Society. There are photographs by sky enthusiasts around the world, satellite images and photographs of clouds in space, as well as skies depicted by great artists over the centuries.
