Peter Wuille has played a vital part in Bitcoin Core since May 2011. The other Bitcoin Core maintainers gave Wuille a lot of appreciation for his service.
Peter Wuille, one of the longest-standing and most prominent Bitcoin Core developers, revealed that he will no longer play the role of a maintainer of the code and will only work without having permission as an administrator.
Wuille revealed the news on Twitter and said he will no longer work as a maintainer of the Bitcoin codebase but will not stop working as an active contributor. His next contribution would include revisions. He said he would only stop doing maintenance, so it is time to cancel their permits.
Wuille asked to get his keys as maintainer of the Bitcoin code out of the platform. This request got approved by the rest of the developers, who appreciated all the goals achieved by this expert.
The team thanked him for being a Bitcoin Core maintainer since May 2011. Some maintainers expressed they have learned many things by reading his posts and will keep learning as long as he continues being an active contributor.
Peter Wuille comes from Belgium and has become quite popular because he became one of the most active developers of Bitcoin Core, with vast experience in this network. It was in 2011 when this expert presented his first Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) with a strong focus on private keys, making it easier for users to move between wallets with efficiency.
In addition, he was the creator of SegWit, which improves how the data gets registered in the blocks of the first Bitcoin chain. This procedure got enacted in August 2017, with the support of at least 99.95% of the Bitcoin network.
SegWit is a software update that has been in constant development for two years by the Bitcoin Core team. Its main goal focuses on security solutions that might serve to prevent transaction malleability attacks by a malicious third party.
SegWit went through an extensive path since its first appearance during the 2015-2017 block war. However, despite its relative achievement as a Bitcoin upgrade, digital asset exchanges, including Binance and Gemini, had shown a lack of commitment to using SegWit addresses to move Bitcoin.
In February of this year, a Glass node report stated that Binance had a slight SegWit adoption rate registered at just 10% through the end of 2021. However, it made a serious effort to manage the SegWit adoption near the end of 2021. Their adoption rate improved to at least 50%, contrasting with Coinbase and FTX.
By: Jenson Nuñez
