Quote from: bitcoinBull on May 25, 2012, 12:23:57 AM

Of course, Bitcoin Consultancy shares equal blame and the mud sticks. I've had my doubts about them ever since I first heard them claiming to be "core bitcoin developers" (I found precisely one commit by genjix to the satoshi client code, and it was a bash script). Refactoring the satoshi client into libbitcoin wouldn't exactly be easy, but a more productive (and difficult) project would've been bitcoinjs. Patrick may be able to find some vulnerabilities, but he didn't secure his own mail server. Also funky that he would offer a bounty to fix a bug in 80 lines of javascript because he is "not interested in chasing bugs in something I'm not familiar with". Aside from creating and operating Intersango (which by itself is commendable, obviously), they haven't done much to inspire confidence that they can handle running bitcoinica (quite the opposite recently).

This is so stupid and retarded.

There are 2 full implementations of the Bitcoin protocol, and I wrote one from scratch in C++: https://gitorious.org/libbitcoin

bitcoin-js is unmaintained, and BitCoinJava is a lightclient. I also wrote the first alternative frontend GUI: https://gitorious.org/freecoin and worked with jaromil on many freecoin improvements. I wrote most of the Wiki pages like the Getting started and PHP developer intro: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page as well as largely writing the original Bitcoin Wikipedia page. That's before I started libbitcoin as a way for developers to easily make alternative Bitcoin clients. I'm also a contributor to Electrum: https://gitorious.org/electrum/server and was one of the people (along with slush and ThomasV) to define the Stratum spec used in it. I am also responsible for the BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal) process: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals (see the title), and have authored 4 BIPs.

What have you done?

I organised the conference, and have written a plethora of articles and tutorials for the community on Bitcoin Media like this. I also helped write the initial stock exchange client for GLBSE and started many other Bitcoin projects that are defunct now but all released as OpenSource including the early version of Intersango - Britcoin. Ironically releasing the source for Britcoin hurt us as people assumed we were connected to third parties that used our software like WBX. We also hired and paid people from the community, and put our own money into growing Bitcoin (and still are). For instance, the conference lost us money and other Bitcoin projects or people we paid went nowhere.