Ryan X. Charles
Developer who wrote Bitcore at BitPay and ran Money Button from 2015 to 2021; after the COPA trial, by Vlad's account, he was among those who said they had been fooled by Craig Wright. Later built EarthBucks.
The wiki's angle: Charles went from Bitcore to the BSV side to a public apology after the COPA trial, a path the show has followed across several episodes.[3][1]
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Career
Ryan X. Charles's site lists BitPay (2013–14), where he “Wrote Bitcore”, Money Button (2015–21), whose payment APIs it says processed $100M, and current work on AI software factories[1]. Kurt Wuckert Jr. said on S17 E39 that Charles “used to work at Coinbase” and was “one of their founding engineers”; this wiki has not checked that against a Coinbase source[2].
After COPA
Kurt recalled that after the 2018 hash war Charles was among those who “ended up on the SV side”[2]. Vlad said in the same episode that after the COPA trial “Ryan X. Charles and a bunch of others decided that it's a good moment to say that they're sorry because they have been fooled”[3]. Joël Valenzuela described Charles's later EarthBucks project, where “Address reuse is banned at the protocol level”[4].
References
- primaryRyan X. Charles, ryanxcharles.com (CV summary, read 13 Nov 2026) [archived]
- episodeS17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr. on Ryan X. Charles after the hash war▶ listen at 1:13:33timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS17 E39: Vlad on Ryan X. Charles after the COPA trial▶ listen at 3:12:57timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS17 E33: Joël Valenzuela on Ryan X. Charles' EarthBucks▶ listen at 3:25:35timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]