Odaily Planet Daily News: The Bitcoin Core development team promoted anonymous developer TheCharlatan (sedited) to Trusted Keys maintainer on January 8, 2026. He joined Marco Falke, Gloria Zhao, Ryan Ofsky, Hennadii Stepanov, and Ava Chow, becoming the sixth trusted key holder. This is the first expansion of core members with commit rights to the main branch since May 2023. It is reported that 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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