Pieter Wuille

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Pieter Wuille is a Belgian Bitcoin Core developer and one of the most prolific contributors to Bitcoin's codebase. He co-created Segregated Witness (SegWit, BIP141), Schnorr signatures (BIP340), and Taproot (BIP341), three of the most significant protocol upgrades in Bitcoin's history. He also co-designed BIP32 hierarchical deterministic wallets and libsecp256k1, the cryptographic library underpinning Bitcoin. Wuille is a researcher at Chaincode Labs.

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Role: Bitcoin Core Developer
Twitter: pwuille
Known For: Co-created SegWit, Schnorr signatures, and Taproot; authored libsecp256k1 and BIP32 HD wallets
Nationality: Belgian
Organization: Chaincode Labs
Twitter Handle: pwuille

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