Jonas Nick

Jonas Nick is a developer and researcher with a focus on cryptography, he holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from ETH Zürich. In 2022, he became the lead of the Cryptography team inside the Blockstream research. Nick is a maintainer of libsecp256k1, a co-author of BIP 341 (Taproot), BIP 340 (Schnorr Signatures), and BIP MuSig2. Nick is also known for being the creator of nix-bitcoin, a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules that make it easy to install full-featured Bitcoin nodes with a focus on security.