Tadge Dryja

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Tadge Dryja is a Bitcoin researcher and co-inventor of the Lightning Network, which he co-designed with Joseph Poon in the 2015 Lightning Network whitepaper. He also invented Utreexo, a novel approach to Bitcoin's UTXO set that would dramatically reduce node storage requirements. Dryja has been a research scientist at MIT Digital Currency Initiative.

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Role: Bitcoin Researcher / Lightning Co-inventor
Company: MIT Digital Currency Initiative
Country: USA
Twitter: tdryja
Known For: Lightning Network co-inventor, Utreexo
Nationality: American
Contributions: Lightning Network whitepaper (2015),Utreexo UTXO set compression
Twitter Handle: TadjeDryja

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