The developer, known by the pseudonym TheCharlatan, is now in charge of one of the most sensitive roles within Bitcoin Core, the reference software for connecting to the Bitcoin network.
January 8th, also known as “sedited,” became the sixth. reliable keychainIn other words, one of the six maintainers: Shortcut to pull changes into core Core code.
This is the first addition to the restricted group since May 2023, almost three years ago.
With this appointment, the Group will: trusted key It consists of Marco Falke, Gloria Chao, Ryan Ofsky, Henady Stepanov, Eva Chow, and now The Charlatans.
According to chats revealed by core developers, this decision was widely supported. At least 20 of nearly 25 active developers The increase in Bitcoin Core on GitHub supported its rise.
In that conversation, Glozow (real name Gloria Zhao), a prominent Bitcoin Core developer and maintainer since July 2022, said of TheCharlatan:
He has worked extensively on critical areas of the codebase, is thoughtful about what he delivers to users and developers, and is a trusted reviewer with a strong understanding of the technical consensus process.
Gloria Zhao, Bitcoin Core Maintainer.
Technical and reserved profiles
Like most Bitcoin Core contributors, TheCharlatan is a pseudonymous developer.
He is from South Africa and has an academic background in Computer Science from the University of Zurich with a secondary specialization in Physics. His work in the Bitcoin ecosystem is sponsored by Spiral, an organization dedicated to funding the development of the network’s critical infrastructure.
In addition to working with code, he maintains his own technical blog. I write about sensitive topics regarding Bitcoin security.reproducible builds, temporary transaction locks, hardware wallet vulnerabilities, and more.
This type of content is positioned as a reference for less obvious but central areas of software robustness.
Finally, one of its main initiatives is the libbitcoinkernel project. This is an effort aimed at clearly separating the consensus logic (the rules that determine whether a block is valid) from the rest of the components of Bitcoin core, such as the peer-to-peer network, wallets, and graphical interfaces.
This approach aims for a more modular and secure architecture and continues work started several years ago by another developer on the project.
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