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Johnson Lau

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Co-author of SegWit's BIP-141 and BIP-143, author of several other SegWit-era BIPs, and a 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable signer.

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The wiki's angle: Lau co-wrote the SegWit specification that the 2017 forks fought over, and was one of five Core contributors at the Hong Kong table.[3][1]

Contents

  1. BIPs
  2. Hong Kong and GitHub
  3. References

BIPs

The BIP index lists Johnson Lau as a co-author of BIP-141, “Segregated Witness (Consensus layer)”, with Eric Lombrozo and Pieter Wuille, and of BIP-143 with Pieter Wuille[1]. It also lists him on BIP-114 (“Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree”), 142, 146 and 147[1]. See Segregated Witness.

Hong Kong and GitHub

He signed the February 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement as a “Bitcoin Core Contributor”[2][3]. His GitHub account, jl2012, dates from August 2014[4].

References

  1. primarybitcoin/bips README (BIP index with authors) [archived]
  2. primaryBitcoin Roundtable, “Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus”, Medium, 20 Feb 2016 (Wayback Machine copy)
  3. btkFork Wars: the block size war timeline (Bitcoin Takeover) [archived]
  4. primaryGitHub profile jl2012 (Johnson Lau), account created 9 Aug 2014 [archived]

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