In 2014, Coursera began developing a new technology platform to improve your learning experience, and to allow courses to run more frequently. The majority of our courses are now offered on the new platform. This month, we are closing the old platform. One or more courses you joined are on the old platform. Effective June 30, 2016, courses on the old platform will no longer be available. You should use this opportunity to save any relevant course materials or assignments.
That meant I had to finish the course by the end of this month. I'm already on the last lecture -- 'Lecture 11: The Future of Bitcoin' -- with only a 'bonus' lecture to follow, so I should finish in time. In any case, the last lectures are somewhat less interesting than the first, as they deal with topics that are mainly of interest to the academic community.
While working through the lectures, I've noted a few topics worth pursuing on this blog. The first is shown below.
Lecture 7.2 - Bitcoin core software (3:00)
Pictured are a handful of core developers at the time the course was created, around mid-2014. While researching this post, I discovered that the term 'bitcoin core developers' means different things to different people. Exluding Satoshi Nakamoto, the other five are listed on the page Bitcoin Development (bitcoin.org), under 'Bitcoin Core contributors (ordered by number of commits)'. Their names, along with the number of results returned by a Google search are as follows:-
- Wladimir van der Laan (10.800 results)
- Gavin Andresen (107.000)
- Jeff Garzik (42.700)
- Gregory Maxwell (84.700)
- Pieter Wuille (16.900)
A Reddit.com discussion appeared this week titled A thank you to Bitcoin Core developers. Although it's largely political, as is much of the noise around bitcoin, it's a sentiment shared by many.
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