Pieter Wuille
Bitcoin Core developer, author of HD wallets, SegWit and Taproot BIPs
- Known for
- BIP 32, SegWit, Schnorr and Taproot[1]
- Years active
- 2012–present (BIP 32 created Feb 2012)[1]
- Key contribution
- HD wallets: the basis of seed-phrase backups[1]
- Notable date
- Nov 14, 2021: Taproot activates[4]
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Bio
Pieter Wuille is a Bitcoin Core developer. He wrote BIP 32, the hierarchical deterministic wallet design that lets one seed back up many keys.[1]
He co-authored BIP 141 (Segregated Witness), and co-authored BIP 340 (Schnorr signatures) and BIP 341 (Taproot), which activated together in 2021.[2][3][4]
He was among the co-founders of Blockstream in 2014.[5]
Timeline
Feb 11, 2012
BIP 32 created[1]
2014
Co-founds Blockstream[5]
Aug 24, 2017
SegWit (BIP 141) activates[2]
Nov 14, 2021
Taproot activates[4]
Connections
Pieter Wuille Taproot BIP builds on the proposal of Gregory Maxwell. Source
Elsewhere on CHC
- Timeline: BIP 32 hierarchical deterministic wallets
- Timeline: SegWit activates
- Timeline: Taproot activates
- History: Civil war
Sources
- [1] BIP 32: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets (author Pieter Wuille, created 2012-02-11)
- [2] BIP 141: Segregated Witness (authors Eric Lombrozo, Johnson Lau, Pieter Wuille)
- [3] BIP 340: Schnorr Signatures for secp256k1 (authors Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing)
- [4] BIP 341: Taproot (authors Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick, Anthony Towns; credits “Taproot by Greg Maxwell”)
- [5] Wikipedia: Blockstream
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