BlockBeats reported on November 23 that Bitcoin developer Rijndael (@rot13maxi) has joined the Taproot Wizards initiative under Bitcoin Ordinals Project as the Chief Technical Officer (CTO). With a strong background in distributed systems, infrastructure, and applied cryptography, Rijndael brings a wealth of expertise to the project.
Over the past 15 years, he has served as the technical leader for Amazon's NFT initiative. More recently, he ventured into the Bitcoin arena, focusing on developing self-hosted tools for Bitkey, a new Bitcoin wallet launched by Block. He also recently launched a BRC-20 token sniper robot named "Sophon," designed to prevent duplicate deployment of tokens with the same name.
