How a Bitcoin dev hub is building a future for free software

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Cryptography pioneer Christopher Allen started Blockchain Commons to build free and open-source tools for Bitcoin. Now he's got fresh talent to help.

It took Christopher Allen, one of the forefathers of the modern cryptographic protocols, longer than you might think to discover Bitcoin.

A co-author of the OpenSSL/TLS protocol for encrypting and sending data over the web, first developed in the late 1990s, the crypto pioneer didn’t become involved in Bitcoin until 2014. Having been familiar with the concept of digital cash (and even trying to crack the problem himself way-back-when), Allen made Bitcoin the focus of his work soon after discovering it.
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