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Matt Corallo

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Long-time Bitcoin developer: author of compact block relay (BIP-152), co-author of BIP-54 Consensus Cleanup, and a signer of the 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement.

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The wiki's angle: Corallo appears on both sides of fork history — at the 2016 Hong Kong table with miners, and in 2022 among those asking whether CTV was the right covenant.[5][6]

Contents

  1. BIPs
  2. Fork politics
  3. References

BIPs

The BIP index lists Matt Corallo as author or co-author of BIPs 21, 37, 54, 111, 152 (“Compact Block Relay”), 321, 323 and 353[1]. BIP-54, “Consensus Cleanup”, names Antoine Poinsot and Matt Corallo as authors[2]; see the Great Consensus Cleanup. His GitHub account, TheBlueMatt, dates from March 2011[3].

Fork politics

He signed the February 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement as a “Bitcoin Core Contributor”, alongside Cory Fields, Johnson Lau, Luke Dashjr and Peter Todd[4][5]. In the 2022 CTV activation debate, Bitcoin Optech reported him arguing that soft forks should wait until a proposal gives the most value, and quoted: “from what I have seen it's not been clear that CTV is really a good option”[6].

References

  1. primarybitcoin/bips README (BIP index with authors) [archived]
  2. primaryBIP-54, “Consensus Cleanup” (Antoine Poinsot, Matt Corallo) [archived]
  3. primaryGitHub profile TheBlueMatt (Matt Corallo), account created 3 Mar 2011 [archived]
  4. primaryBitcoin Roundtable, “Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus”, Medium, 20 Feb 2016 (Wayback Machine copy)
  5. btkFork Wars: the block size war timeline (Bitcoin Takeover) [archived]
  6. secondaryBitcoin Optech Newsletter, 27 Apr 2022, “Discussion about activating CTV” [archived]

Related

Great Consensus Cleanup (BIP-54)
A soft fork bundling fixes for the timewarp bug, slow-to-validate blocks, 64-byte transactions and duplicate c
CTV and the covenant activation debates
The long fight over OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (BIP-119): Jeremy Rubin's 2022 Speedy Trial plan, a 2025 open lette
Hong Kong Roundtable
The February 2016 meeting where miners and some Core contributors agreed SegWit first, then a roughly 2 MB har
Johnson Lau
Co-author of SegWit's BIP-141 and BIP-143, author of several other SegWit-era BIPs, and a 2016 Hong Kong Round
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