Wich of the early devs are still active on bitcoin development?

Some speculation about Gavin Andresen, sorry for being off-topic.

What happened to him and why is he trying to tell everyone that Craig Wright is the "real" Satoshi? It is almost like he's trying to defame himself.

Maybe it has something to do with his visit to the CIA headquarters? What did he share from the meeting?

Plus what of the stories that Satoshi went offline forever after Gavin went to the CIA?

Gavin is not stupid but some of his actions have become bizarre from what I read.

Thanks! You're the second person I've seen trying to write about those whose names have fallen off the grid (I assume correctly?). As I mentioned, at least one of the devs of Skyledger is claimed to be one of the early developers - all the Googling I've found points only to one recent video interview that suggests a bit of deep knowledge but nothing that couldn't be gleaned off just following discussions. I've also been following the trails of some others, all cypherpunks of some water, only for interest but I can't help but wonder if any were involved in launching the Bitcoin experiment.

Anyone interested in Bitcoin's early history should give Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper a read. It becomes bogged down in now irrelevant business noodling later on, but the first part is a neat summary of the very early days.

I think it is reported somewhere that Nick Szabo also communicated with Satoshi. Hal Finney was also the recipient of the first

Bitcoin transaction, so he had to have contact with Satoshi in some way, other than the Crypto forum they talked on. The

whole secrecy around this, makes this just so more exciting. Why do you want to know? Most of this information is well

documented. {Books like, Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking} 

Very interesting, am surprised I never discovered this little forum hack myself! I have entertained some ideas (far, far behind on the backburner) of trying to compile a comprehensive list of developers - not only those that contributed directly on github but also those whose early discussions and efforts would have at least made some sort of important contribution. Amir Taaki, for example, I often read about and he's always noted as an "early Bitcoin developer" but I don't see any of his contributions. Then we've got very old projects like Skyledger that claims to have been built by "original Bitcoin developers" but none of their names come up on Github. They do share the same radical outlooks and demeanour - quite unlike the devs active here and on github who I find are very collected, very logical, fastidious (I hope I don't presume).

Posterity is important to me, for some context. But I know a lot of people would be against this sort thing, judging from responses I've seen last year when some new Satoshi emails were unearthed for the first time. Understandable from a privacy point of view.

Hi all,

I'm just trying to get some historical context of big name developers from 2009, those who would have been in touch with Satoshi.

Here is the list of Bitcoin Core's developers, it's in the bitcoin.org site all along: bitcoin.org/en/development
The names are clickable as a link to view their Github profiles.
The earliest developers like Gavin Andresen are in the list too.

From the github contributors list I noticed that on selecting a range between 2009-2010 I can see few developers https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors?from=2009-08-30&to=2010-12-31&type=c and https://github.com/non-github-bitcoin (an account created for commits before the bitcoin-core code was probably migrated to github from sourceforge)

1) Satoshi Nakamoto
2) sirius-m (Martti Malmi)
3) laszloh - based on some commits made here https://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/code/252/log/?path= (go to older and you'll find them all here) https://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/code/123/
4) Gavin Andresen

Leaving this video here for fun too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjYbsq3FXfM (It shows a visualization from 2008 - 2018 all the developers involved based on commits made)

For those of you who want to see the BEEKEPPER

https://imgur.com/a/M2Jw8
Picture from id 

Actually we have several marketing campaigns going on, and support from several ICO listing sites. Unfortunately this is one of the things we significantly underestimated.

We've found that the vast majority of the media outlets seem to be taking advantage of the recent boom of ICOs and are demanding up-front payment on the order of 10BTC or more for basic listing/twitter services, etc...

We have some support, but our model is such that we are accountable to our backers for any money spent on marketing. And as such it needs to neatly (and justifiably) fit into our marketing budget already declared.

We've found a few excellent souls willing to help, but the majority seem to be clinging to the bubble...

We'll see how that pans out in the long run as the ICO market becomes more "mature". In the meantime we're doing our best to promote it any way we can and get the word out there. I think we'll get it across the line, but certainly lots of lessons learned about the unique aspects of running an ICO as a means to fund a project!

Thanks!