by Rushali 
As a bitcoin and cryptocurrency investor, suppose you get to meet the real mind behind bitcoin and the creator of the fuss…Mr. Satoshi Nakamoto and not only this just imagine if you met him and he declared you as the next developer of bitcoin who would be working to improve the technology and also would be responsible for the mass acceptance of this technology by people and the government.
Sounds exciting, right? Although I know nothing about coding and stuff, I can take the responsibility to take the technology to people, the sort of work I am already doing now. I hope you are following my informative articles on the same topics and some newer terms too.
Well, I don’t think I am that lucky but, some people have been lucky to work with Satoshi Nakamoto, and some also contributed to the early development days of our digital gold “Bitcoin”. I am talking about the real development, the first lines of coding, and giving away bitcoins just to let people know about the potential existence of such technology.
Just imagine there was a time when people were giving away bitcoins in exchange for visiting websites, I can just wish these in my wildest dreams.
Well, today we will talk about one such person who is considered as the real creator of bitcoin, of course after Satoshi Nakamoto and is the real heir to Nakamoto’s bitcoin development after his mysterious disappearance.
Let’s talk about Gavin Andresen, as quoted by many mainstream technology websites “ the man who really created bitcoin” but, is he the one behind the creation of this breakthrough way of transferring money or he was just the right hand of Mr. Nakamoto and the creation of bitcoin was a collaborative work.
Let’s dig deeper and try to understand the mystery and also take a look at Andresen’s life and his total net worth.
Introduction
Gavin Andresen was born in the year 1966 in the city of Melbourne, Australia later moved on to the city of Seattle in America. He was into computers and stuff from a very young age.
Andresen completed his formal education earning a degree in computer science from Princeton University. It was not all about bitcoins until 2010, his career trajectory started with SGI which stands for silicon Graphics computer systems in which he worked as an engineer to build 3D graphics and was involved in developing VRML and Open inventor. Moving on from this job field in 1996 he wanted to dip his hands in the field of entrepreneurship as it was the early website days.
He laid the foundation for his firm and named it Wasabi software corporation which later released Skypaint, a software focused on painting and editing 3D environments around.
In 1997, Andresen coauthored Wired for speed: Efficient routes of VRML 2.0, which explained in extreme detail that how the use of computers can alter the development of 3D environments and mapping.
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Among his other enthusiastic inventions, he developed online games for blind-sighted people and also developed the VOIP.
In the year 2010, Gavin Andresen became interested and fascinated by the beauty of this new bitcoin technology and purchased ten bitcoins for almost 50 USD. He was so convinced by the potential of this technology that he became involved in releasing a website that gave away bitcoins whenever someone visited the website to make people more aware of the potential behind this technology.
According to sources, a user got around five BTCs for a single visit, just imagine five bitcoins for a website visit.
Damn! I would have visited multiple times.
At the time Andresen also developed clear coin, a bitcoin exchange system service.
All these efforts made by him lead him directly to work with Satoshi Nakamoto and they used to talk through forums and emails and we’re working hard to take this project further.
After some time Satoshi Nakamoto bidder goodbye to the bitcoin project and disappeared making Andresen the project head after his disappearance which lead to Andresen being an overnight celebrity.
Andresen also founded the bitcoin foundation the closest centralized agency for the decentralized bitcoin currency.
Gavin Andresen net worth
The total assumed net worth of Andresen is a mere 2 million US dollars, which I don’t believe as him being one of the creators of bitcoin.
There will be sometime in the future where he will be coined as the richest bitcoin billionaire because of his huge bitcoin holdings, that’s my prediction and please take it with a handful of salt.
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