THELOGICALINDIAN - Prominent Bitcoin enthusiast and apostle of bifold micropayment channels Christian Deckerannounced on Twitter today that he will be abutting the Blockstream aggregation to assignment on L2 protocols
Decker Joins Blockstream to Work on Lightning Network
According to Blockstream’s official blog, Decker was assassin on to accompany his ability and aptitude to the company’s accepted analysis on lightning networks. While advancing this band of assignment he will be abutting by Blockstream developer, Rusty Russell, who has fabricated abstract contributions to the advancement of lightning networks in the past.
Decker is an aboriginal adopter of Bitcoin, as he began agreeable in the cryptocurrency while it was still in its adolescence in 2009. He has additionally created a cardinal of protocols including PeerConsensus and Duplex Micropayment Channel. Furthermore, Decker brings with him the different acumen of accepting authored the world’s aboriginal PhD argument about Bitcoin at ETH Zurich while alive with the Distributed Computing Group.
Along with Decker, Blockstream additionally took the adventitious to formally acceptable added new advisers that they accept brought on back aboriginal this year. A noteworthy hiring has been that of Kat Walsh — abutting in February as acknowledged admonition — having served on the lath of the Wikimedia Foundation for seven years, including a appellation as its chair. Additionally, Blockstream additionally assassin on Eric Martindale as “Developer Evangelist.” Eric has a long history with Bitcoin, accepting formed a agnate role for Bitpay.
Ever since the acquisition of the European-based Bitcoin wallet software provider, GreenAddress, it seems Blockstream has been aggravating to aggrandize its operations. The new accumulation of hirings, abnormally that of Christian Decker, alone works to added this acceptance as the aggregation itself looks to abide its efforts in Bitcoin development with projects like the lightning network.
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