0 sats \ 2 replies \ @carloschida 16 Aug \ on: Visualizing/ranking bitcoin core contributors bitcoin
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Carloschida was trying to figure out more about Bitcoin's past by looking at its history on Github, a site where people share and work on code together. Here are some of the things he found out:
- Fewer than 400 people have contributed to Bitcoin's core software on Github.
- He made a list of the first five people who committed their code to Bitcoin's project. Committing is like turning in a homework assignment.
- He also made a list of the top five contributors, those who have turned in the most 'assignments'.
- There's a cool chart he made that you can give a look. If you imagine it like a night sky, each developer (coder) is a star. The year they first contributed to Bitcoin is like how high they are in the sky. How much they've contributed is like how bright they are. The color of the star shows if they are still helping out. Are they a star we see tonight or one that vanished long ago?
- The big dark blue star is Satoshi, the mysterious person who started Bitcoin. In the big list of people who have contributed, lots have chosen to hide their names, a bit like superheroes, with this dark blue star being a special one.
- From Github's data, there are about 1200 contributors, but he could only identify ~350. The others made their contributions secretly.
- There's a lot more to learn as he's still working on
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