Found a golden oldie of a group of people with a lot of combined 🧠power at the Rebooting the Web of Trust Conference (Nov 9th, 2015)
Left to right: Joseph Poon, Christopher Allen, Greg Maxwell, Joseph Bonneau, Peter Todd, Pieter Wuille & Tyler Close
Their output that day: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust/blob/master/final-documents/smart-signatures.pdf
Are any of these guys (besides @pete) on Mastodon as well?
i keep expecting something amazing to pop up out of nowhere from greg maxwell. Is he still around and active in the space, or on a (well-deserved) sabbatical on a beach somewhere?
@dilutionproof @pete
Oh. I thought he left Blockstream and that was after the taproot proposal. Sry.
@harrym @pete Oh you’re right actually (https://blockstream.com/2018/01/19/en-blockstream-bids-farewell-to-gregory-maxwell/), guess I don’t know what he’s up to these days then
@dilutionproof @harrym He's still doing Bitcoin stuff. But not as publicly as before. I think the block size nonsense burned him out a bit from being too much in the public eye. I still talk to him regularly.
@pete @dilutionproof
I fully understood that decision. Fighting lefty emotionals doesn't even work out well for presidents. :)