{
  "_comment": "Bitcoin Core maintainer whitelist. Updated manually based on community consensus (StackExchange #176). Activity metrics are derived dynamically from git logs.",
  "_last_updated": "2026-02-02",
  "maintainers": [
    {
      "id": "satoshi",
      "name": "Satoshi Nakamoto",
      "emails": [
        "satoshin@gmx.com",
        "satoshi@vistomail.com",
        "none@satoshi.com"
      ],
      "github": "satoshi",
      "status": "historical",
      "evidence": "Project founder and first lead maintainer. Active 2009-2011."
    },
    {
      "id": "sirius",
      "name": "Martti Malmi",
      "emails": [
        "sirius-m@1a98c847-1fd6-4fd8-948a-caf3550aa51b",
        "martti@malmi.com",
        "sirius@siriusm.fi"
      ],
      "github": "siriusm",
      "status": "historical",
      "evidence": "Early contributor; created the first sourceforge SVN repository for Bitcoin."
    },
    {
      "id": "laszloh",
      "name": "Laszlo Hanyecz",
      "emails": [
        "laszloh@1a98c847-1fd6-4fd8-948a-caf3550aa51b",
        "laszloh@gmail.com"
      ],
      "github": "laszloh",
      "status": "historical",
      "evidence": "Early maintainer responsible for the original Mac OSX builds and support."
    },
    {
      "id": "gavinandresen",
      "name": "Gavin Andresen",
      "emails": [
        "gavinandresen@gmail.com"
      ],
      "github": "gavinandresen",
      "status": "historical",
      "evidence": "Successor to Satoshi; Lead Maintainer from 2011 to 2014."
    },
    {
      "id": "dooglus",
      "name": "Chris Moore",
      "emails": [
        "chris@moore.cx",
        "dooglus@gmail.com"
      ],
      "github": "dooglus",
      "status": "historical",
      "evidence": "Historic committer (2011) verified via StackExchange #176."
    },
    {
      "id": "sipa",
      "name": "Pieter Wuille",
      "emails": [
        "pieter.wuille@gmail.com",
        "pieter@wuille.net"
      ],
      "github": "sipa",
      "status": "emeritus",
      "evidence": "Prominent long-time contributor and maintainer; co-founder of Blockstream."
    },
    {
      "id": "jgarzik",
      "name": "Jeff Garzik",
      "emails": [
        "jgarzik@exmulti.com",
        "jgarzik@bitpay.com",
        "jgarzik@pobox.com"
      ],
      "github": "jgarzik",
      "status": "historical",
      "evidence": "Frequent early contributor and committer until 2016."
    },
    {
      "id": "laanwj",
      "name": "Wladimir J. van der Laan",
      "emails": [
        "laanwj@gmail.com",
        "laanwj@protonmail.com",
        "126646+laanwj@users.noreply.github.com"
      ],
      "github": "laanwj",
      "status": "emeritus",
      "evidence": "Long-time Lead Maintainer (2014-2022)."
    },
    {
      "id": "tcatm",
      "name": "Nils Schneider",
      "emails": [
        "nils@nils.to",
        "nils.schneider@gmail.com",
        "nils@nilsschneider.net"
      ],
      "github": "tcatm",
      "status": "historical",
      "evidence": "Historic committer (2011-2012) verified via StackExchange #176."
    },
    {
      "id": "gmaxwell",
      "name": "Gregory Maxwell",
      "emails": [
        "gmaxwell@gmail.com",
        "greg@xiph.org"
      ],
      "github": "gmaxwell",
      "status": "historical",
      "evidence": "Frequent early contributor and committer until 2015."
    },
    {
      "id": "jonasschnelli",
      "name": "Jonas Schnelli",
      "emails": [
        "dev@jonasschnelli.ch"
      ],
      "github": "jonasschnelli",
      "status": "emeritus",
      "evidence": "Long-time GUI maintainer."
    },
    {
      "id": "theuni",
      "name": "Cory Fields",
      "emails": [
        "cory-nospam-@coryfields.com",
        "theuni-nospam-@xoom.com",
        "cfields@gmail.com"
      ],
      "github": "theuni",
      "status": "emeritus",
      "evidence": "Long-time maintainer (Emeritus); verified via official Trusted Keys (cfields.gpg) for release signing."
    },
    {
      "id": "luke-jr",
      "name": "Luke Dashjr",
      "emails": [
        "luke-jr+git@utopios.org",
        "luke@dashjr.org",
        "luke-jr@dashjr.org"
      ],
      "github": "luke-jr",
      "status": "emeritus",
      "evidence": "Long-time prominent contributor and maintainer."
    },
    {
      "id": "MarcoFalke",
      "name": "Marco Falke",
      "emails": [
        "falke.marco@gmail.com",
        "*~=`'#}+{/-|&$^_@721217.xyz"
      ],
      "github": "MarcoFalke",
      "status": "emeritus",
      "evidence": "Former QA/Testing maintainer; hold record for most total commits."
    },
    {
      "id": "meshcollider",
      "name": "Samuel Dobson",
      "emails": [
        "samuel@dobson.id.au",
        "dobsonsa68@gmail.com"
      ],
      "github": "meshcollider",
      "status": "emeritus",
      "evidence": "Former Wallet maintainer."
    },
    {
      "id": "fanquake",
      "name": "Michael Ford",
      "emails": [
        "fanquake@gmail.com"
      ],
      "github": "fanquake",
      "status": "active",
      "evidence": "Current Lead Maintainer."
    },
    {
      "id": "hebasto",
      "name": "Hennadii Stepanov",
      "emails": [
        "32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com",
        "hebasto@gmail.com"
      ],
      "github": "hebasto",
      "status": "active",
      "evidence": "Current GUI Maintainer."
    },
    {
      "id": "achow101",
      "name": "Andrew Chow",
      "emails": [
        "github@achow101.com",
        "achow101-github@achow101.com",
        "achow101@gmail.com"
      ],
      "github": "achow101",
      "status": "active",
      "evidence": "Current Wallet/PSBT Maintainer."
    },
    {
      "id": "glozow",
      "name": "Gloria Zhao",
      "emails": [
        "gloriajzhao@gmail.com"
      ],
      "github": "glozow",
      "status": "active",
      "evidence": "Current Mempool/Policy Maintainer."
    },
    {
      "id": "ryanofsky",
      "name": "Ryan Ofsky",
      "emails": [
        "ryan@ofsky.org"
      ],
      "github": "ryanofsky",
      "status": "active",
      "evidence": "Current multi-process/interfaces maintainer."
    },
    {
      "id": "thecharlatan",
      "name": "TheCharlatan",
      "emails": [
        "seb.kung@gmail.com"
      ],
      "github": "thecharlatan",
      "status": "active",
      "evidence": "Current build system/security maintainer."
    }
  ]
}