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A list of active contributors to Bitcoin, ordered by first name.

Andreas Schildbach (Profile) - original developer of Bitcoin Wallet for Android (Google Code Project).

Amir Taaki aka genjix- creator of the Britcoin and Intersango exchanges, libbitcoin library for Bitcoin, Spesmilo, Bitcoin Consultancy, Vibanko, GLBSE client, Bitcoin poker client, Python bindings for Bitcoin, Pastecoin and others.

Art Forz- developed the first GUI miner and at one time his GPU mining farm (the ArtFarm) was mining over a third of all blocks.

Gary Rowe (Profile) - Contributor to the MultiBit (http://multibit.org) and BitCoinJ (http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/) projects. Working on various Bitcoin based businesses.

Gavin Andresen- (Profile) Satoshi client maintainer. He previously worked at Silicon Graphics and now runs his own company.

Hal Finney- one of the creators of PGP and one of the earliest contributors to the Bitcoin project. First to identify a type of double-spending attack that now bears his name -- the Finney attack.

James McCarthy aka Nefario- creator of the first bitcoin stock exchange GLBSE

Jed McCaleb, original developer of MtGox. Previously created eDonkey2000.

Jeff Garzik- (Wikipedia Entry) Satoshi client core developer, GPU poold software and the founder of Bitcoin Watch. Works as a Linux kernel developer at Red Hat,

Luke Dashjr aka Luke-Jr- Eligius owner/admin, maintains BFGMiner and maintainer of bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt stable branches.

Mark Karpeles aka MagicalTux- Owner of the largest Bitcoin exchange, MtGox, this Bitcoin Wiki, and Kalyhost

Martti Malmi aka Sirius- Operates the host for bitcoin.org and is an administrator of the Bitcoin Forum.

Matt Corallo aka BlueMatt- Satoshi client developer.

Michael Hendrix aka mndrix- creator of the now defunct CoinPal and CoinCard services

Michael Marquardt aka theymos- creator of the widely used blockexplorer.com site, and BitcoinTalk Forum

Mike Hearn (Profile)- Google engineer who works on Gmail and developed BitCoinJ (http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/)

Nils Schneider aka tcatm - Bitcoin developer, owner of BitcoinWatch, creator and owner of BitcoinCharts, GPU mining software and JS web interface.

Patrick McFarland aka Diablo-D3 - DiabloMiner author, and BitcoinTalk forum moderator.

Patrick Strateman aka phantomcircuit - Bitcoin developer, creator of Intersango, member of Bitcoin Consultancy and creator of Python Bitcoin implementation.

Pieter Wuille aka sipa- Satoshi client developer and maintainer of the network graphs http://bitcoin.sipa.be

Stefan Thomas aka justmoon- creator of the WeUseCoins.com site/video and WebCoin.

Tamas Blummer aka grau - author of Bits of Proof, the enterprise-ready implementation of the Bitcoin protocol. http://bitsofproof.com

Vladimir Marchenko- Profile, runs Marchenko Ltd which sells mining contracts, previously developed the figator.org search engine.


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