Emma Tucker, WSJ Shared: Feb 17, 2023, 7:51 AM ET PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION BY ALEXANDRA CITRIN-SAFADI/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, PHOTOS: ISTOCK The nearly $500 billion cryptocurrency relies on a group of just five people who can write changes to the open-source program that keeps its digital ledger up to date. These so-called maintainers are chosen by peers in the crypto community, receive salaries from a loose network of donors and are often vague about their whereabouts. According to a maintainer named Andrew Chow, only 17 people have had access to the code since bitcoin’s launch in 2009. Bitcoin proponents say that, at least once, maintainers patched a bug that could have destroyed the currency’s value. | The ADs on this page are posted by Affiliate of corresponding companies (not their employee) |
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