Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao has resigned from her maintainer position

Odaily News Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao has resigned from her maintainer position and revoked her cryptographic signing key. She has long focused on areas such as mempool validation, transaction relay, and fee estimation. Her resignation does not affect Bitcoin's consensus rules, network security, or transaction processing.

The report notes that maintainers resigning and revoking keys is a common practice in open-source projects. Bitcoin Core maintainers are a small, trusted group of developers responsible for code review, approving updates, and digitally signing official releases using their keys. Zhao contributed to Bitcoin Core development for over six years, but her work did not involve changing Bitcoin's underlying protocol rules. Zhao did not respond to inquiries regarding the specific reasons for her departure. (Cryptopolitan)