Bitcoin Core Development
Introduction
The Digital Currency Initiative was founded in 2015. Part of the initiative’s mission was aimed at neutrally funding Bitcoin developers, in order to feed into our core research in the security, privacy, scalability, and usability of decentralized and centralized digital currency networks.
Developers Wladimir van der Laan and Cory Fields have helped with the production and successful deployment of several new versions of Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin's reference software, each bringing optimizations, usability improvements and security upgrades. As part of that work, they also necessarily contribute to several other software projects in the cryptocurrency space as well as other useful open-source projects used in the ecosystem.
We have also been key participants in the evolution of the underlying Bitcoin Protocol, helping to usher in new features such as CheckLockTimeVerify, CheckSequenceVerify, and Segregated Witness, through code authorship, review, and community participation.
All software has bugs, and sadly Bitcoin Core is no exception. As such, we also sometimes find ourselves reacting quickly to bug reports and vulnerability disclosures. Though we have staved off catastrophic failures thus far, we continue to look for ways to harden the code, development processes, and the protocol itself.
