PANews February 6th News, according to Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao has resigned from her maintainer position and revoked her cryptographic signing key. She has long focused on mempool validation, transaction relaying, and fee estimation. Her resignation does not affect Bitcoin’s consensus rules, network security, or transaction processing.
The report points out that resigning maintainers and revoking keys are common practices in open-source projects. Bitcoin Core maintainers are a trusted small group of developers responsible for code review, approval of updates, and digitally signing official releases with their keys. Zhao has contributed to Bitcoin Core development for over six years, but her work did not involve changing Bitcoin’s underlying protocol rules. Zhao did not comment on her specific reasons for leaving.
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