Nils Schneider

3 entries

September 13, 2011 GitHub

Bitcoin moves to GitHub — Early committer access grants (2010–2011)

Bitcoin Project ↔ Gavin Andresen, Chris Moore, Pieter Wuille, Jeff Garzik, Wladimir van der Laan, Nils Schneider

Bitcoin's migration from SourceForge SVN to GitHub, and the chronological record of developers who received commit access to the GitHub repository in 2011.

November 20, 2011 bitcoin-core

Bitcoin v0.5 removes the Crypto++ dependency, replacing it with OpenSSL SHA-256

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Nils Schneider, Gavin Andresen, Wei Dai, Pieter Wuille, Satoshi Nakamoto

On November 20, 2011, Bitcoin v0.5 shipped with the Crypto++ SHA-256 subset removed and replaced by OpenSSL. Wei Dai's library, a direct codebase dependency since v0.1, was gone.

January 29, 2012 GitHub

BIP 21 — URI Scheme

Nils Schneider ↔ Matt Corallo

Defined the 'bitcoin:' URI scheme for standardized payment requests. Enables clickable Bitcoin addresses and QR codes with amount/label/message parameters — basis of user-friendly Bitcoin payments.