It’s a great joy to welcome (back) Sjors to the family. Sjors joined our team as one of our earliest engineers and was at the center of rewriting and scaling our web wallet for three years. After some time off for exploring, Sjors has decided to focus on open source protocol development. I know he’ll bring a valuable perspective from his time working on our platform.
Sjors has been passionate about contributing to open source for a long-time. In fact, that’s how we met him – he made a pull request on an early version of our iOS wallet. He’s already contributing to Bitcoin Core and has previously run some really fun smart contract experiments on Ethereum.
We want to make sure Sjors is independent, so we’ve been clear that:
- Sjors is sponsored for the work and is an independent from our main engineering team
- Sjors can work on any protocol that we’re currently supporting on our wallet
- Everything Sjors does under the sponsorship is open sourced
Sjors has already had a tremendous impact on the way millions of people use digital currencies, but I’m excited to see him continue making that impact, across an even greater user base by shifting his focus to the protocols themselves. To the OS community, you should know you’re getting one of the best – a person I don’t always agree with, but a person whose opinion I’ve always found to be of the highest quality, and whose integrity is without a doubt.
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