#greg maxwell

Bitcoin Core Dev: Anti-51% Attack Measures Always Imply Centralization

Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell criticizes the “attractive mystery” that fear of a 51% attack on Bitcoin entails, adding that every possible solution is centralized.

Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell has criticized the “attractive mystery” that fear of a 51% attack on Bitcoin (BTC) entails, arguing that it betrays a fundamental lack of understanding about the cryptocurrency.

In a Reddit…

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Bitcoin SV 'Maybe' the 'Real Fake Bitcoin' – 'But Who Cares?'

Bitcoin Bulletproofed: Wuille, Maxwell and More Propose Scalable Privacy Tech

Bitcoin may be one step closer to offering users improved confidentiality.

Proposed in a new paper authored by heavyweight cryptographers including Dan Boneh, Pieter Wuille and Greg Maxwell, “Bulletproofs” outlines a new technique that would reduce the size of so-called “confidential transaction” code – long floated as a possible way to shield the transaction amounts currently public on the…