Pieter Wuille
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In plain words
Pieter Wuille: Bitcoin Core developer; author of BIP32 and co-author of SegWit, Schnorr and Taproot; Blockstream co-founder; now at Chaincode Labs. Author of BIP32, the hierarchical deterministic wallets behind today's seed phrases, and co-author of BIP141 (SegWit), BIP340 (Schnorr signatures) and BIP341 (Taproot). BIP32 (HD wallets), which he authored, is assigned, 11 Feb 2012.
Source: github.com
Key facts
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Also known as | sipa (GitHub) | github.com |
| Role | Bitcoin Core developer; author of BIP32 and co-author of SegWit, Schnorr and Taproot; Blockstream co-founder; now at Chaincode Labs | github.com |
| First known Bitcoin link | BIP32 (HD wallets), which he authored, is assigned, 11 Feb 2012 | github.com |
| Location | New York (his public GitHub profile) | github.com |
| Work | Chaincode Labs, Bitcoin research and development | wuille.net |
Background
- Blockstream, co-founder (2014) [blog.blockstream.com]
- libsecp256k1, minisketch, bitcoin-seeder, Miniscript (author/co-author) [wuille.net]
- Formerly Google and KU Leuven's DTAI group (X bio) [x.com]
- “code efficiency, applied cryptography, coding & information theory, P2P networking” (his website) [wuille.net]
Timeline
- 11 Feb 2012: BIP32 “Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets” is assigned. It credits Gregory Maxwell “for the original idea of type-2 deterministic wallets”. [github.com]
- 17 Nov 2014: Co-founds Blockstream; $21M seed round announced. [blog.blockstream.com]
- 21 Dec 2015: BIP141 Segregated Witness (co-author) is assigned. [github.com]
- 14 Nov 2021: Taproot activates at block 709,632. [mempool.space]
Connections
- Gregory Maxwell: Blockstream co-founders; BIP32 credits Maxwell's type-2 wallet idea; co-authors of several papers [github.com]
- Adam Back: Blockstream co-founders (2014); co-authors of Confidential Assets [wuille.net]
- theymos: Co-signers of the CoinJoin bounty escrow (2013) [bitcointalk.org]
In their own words
“Here are two BIP drafts that specify a proposal for a Taproot softfork.” (6 May 2019, via bitcoin-dev mailing list) [gnusha.org]
FAQ
- Who is Pieter Wuille?
- Pieter Wuille: Bitcoin Core developer; author of BIP32 and co-author of SegWit, Schnorr and Taproot; Blockstream co-founder; now at Chaincode Labs. Author of BIP32, the hierarchical deterministic wallets behind today's seed phrases, and co-author of BIP141 (SegWit), BIP340 (Schnorr signatures) and BIP341 (Taproot). BIP32 (HD wallets), which he authored, is assigned, 11 Feb 2012. (source: github.com)
- When did Pieter Wuille first appear in Bitcoin's history?
- BIP32 (HD wallets), which he authored, is assigned, 11 Feb 2012. (source: github.com)
- How was Pieter Wuille connected to Gregory Maxwell?
- Blockstream co-founders; BIP32 credits Maxwell's type-2 wallet idea; co-authors of several papers. (source: github.com)
See also
- Gregory MaxwellGregory Maxwell: Early Bitcoin developer; proposed CoinJoin (2013); co-founder of Blockstream (2014). In June 2011 he argued on the forum that Bitcoin should default to deterministic wallets; BIP32 later credits him with “the original idea of type-2 deterministic wallets”. In August 2013 he proposed CoinJoin for on-chain privacy. Blockstream's 2014 seed-round post lists him among its co-founders.
- Adam BackAdam Back: Inventor of Hashcash, cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper; co-founder and CEO of Blockstream. Cypherpunk and cryptographer. In 1997 he proposed Hashcash, the proof-of-work that Bitcoin mining uses. In 2008 Satoshi emailed him before publishing the whitepaper, and he pointed Satoshi to Wei Dai's b-money. In 2024 he testified in COPA v Wright.
- theymostheymos: Administrator of the Bitcoin Forum (bitcointalk.org). One of the earliest members of the Bitcoin forum (member #35, February 2010), now its Administrator. On 15 August 2010, minutes after the first report about block 74638, he replied: “This could be a serious problem.”
References
- github.com github.com
- wuille.net wuille.net
- GitHub · sipa github.com
- X · @pwuille x.com
- blog.blockstream.com blog.blockstream.com
- wuille.net wuille.net
- github.com github.com
- gnusha.org gnusha.org
- mempool.space mempool.space
- bitcointalk.org bitcointalk.org