Steps down as lead developer
Andresen steps down as lead developer for Bitcoin Foundation today. His responsibilities of maintaining core code for the Bitcoin system were given to Wladimir van der Laan, a dutch computer scientist with a PhD in computer graphics.
Congrats to Wladimir @orionwl; he has agreed to take on the
Bitcoin Core Maintainer (aka lead developer) role https://t.co/AssvzRtZ8G— Gavin Andresen (@gavinandresen) April 7, 2014
Andresen will continue his role as Chief Scientist of Bitcoin Foundation and said he will enjoy being able to concentrate more on protocol-level Bitcoin issues.
I enjoy coding, and I think I’ll be most effective as Chief Scientist if I don’t lose touch with engineering reality and make the mistake of building huge, beautiful, theoretical castles that exist only as whitepapers.