The Bitcoin Core development team promoted anonymous developer TheCharlatan (sedited) to Trusted Keys maintainer on January 8, 2026. This is the first expansion of core members with commit rights to the main branch since May 2023. As a result, the number of PGP key maintainers with submission permissions for Bitcoin Core has increased to 6, including Marco Falke, Gloria Zhao, Ryan Ofsky, Hennadii Stepanov, Ava Chow, and TheCharlatan. TheCharlatan graduated from the University of Zurich with a degree in Computer Science, focusing mainly on reproducible build and verification logic. His appointment received unanimous support in the core contributor discussions. (Protos)
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Bitcoin Core developer team promotes anonymous developer TheCharlatan (edited) to Trusted Keys maintainer
The Bitcoin Core development team promoted anonymous developer TheCharlatan (sedited) to Trusted Keys maintainer on January 8, 2026. This is the first expansion of core members with commit rights to the main branch since May 2023. As a result, the number of PGP key maintainers with submission permissions for Bitcoin Core has increased to 6, including Marco Falke, Gloria Zhao, Ryan Ofsky, Hennadii Stepanov, Ava Chow, and TheCharlatan. TheCharlatan graduated from the University of Zurich with a degree in Computer Science, focusing mainly on reproducible build and verification logic. His appointment received unanimous support in the core contributor discussions. (Protos)