Matt Corallo

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3 entries reference this keyword in body prose.

Event November 1, 2014 Added June 23, 2026 Updated October 13, 2026 Analysis

Did Blockstream control Bitcoin? — the block-size war's biggest 'centralization' charge

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Gregory Maxwell, Adam Back, Pieter Wuille, Mike Hearn, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Satoshi Nakamoto

Weighing the 'Blockstream controls Bitcoin' charge against the documentary record: where it comes from, and how each link in the chain holds up.

Event August 15, 2015 Added May 9, 2026 Updated October 13, 2026 Analysis

Why Bitcoin's fork wars were not OSS fork wars — the vacuum Satoshi left, the money on top, and the three layers that bind

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, Peter Todd, Gregory Maxwell, Adam Back, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Mike Belshe, Vitalik Buterin, Daniel Larimer, Satoshi Nakamoto

Why Bitcoin's 2015-2017 fork wars ran as identity contests, not OSS disputes: the post-2011 authority vacuum, the economic weight on rule choices, and the three layers that bound code to currency.

Event March 5, 2013 Added April 17, 2026 Updated October 11, 2026 Biography

Gregory Maxwell — Blockstream co-founder and designer of CoinJoin and Confidential Transactions

Gregory Maxwell

Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor (gmaxwell), Blockstream co-founder, co-developer of libsecp256k1. Authored CoinJoin, co-designed Confidential Transactions. Known for deep technical write-ups.