[Q] Who are the old guard coin minters?

[anderl]

Does anyone know the usernames of the old coin makers or any of the old developers that contributed to the development of bitcoin, litecoin or any features that were introduced in any of the other coins.

I'd like to PM them some questions.  Mostly out of curiosity.  The code can only tell me so much.

[kooke]

Satoshi!!
Gavin andersen for BitCoin
Coblee for LiteCoin
Sunny King for PPCoin
Balthazar (I think) for Nova-coin

[anderl]

ah thank you.  that helps a great deal.  not sure if I'll get ahold of them but it would be nice if I can figure something out from discussing their work with them.  thanks again.

[kooke]

ah thank you.  that helps a great deal.  not sure if I'll get ahold of them but it would be nice if I can figure something out from discussing their work with them.  thanks again.

You're welcome

Sunny king and Balthazar seem to be more active on here, so you're more likely to get a response out of them.

[Balthazar]

You are correct, TBX is progenitor of almost all scrypt coins.

[digitalindustry]

 they are back on the front page all trying to figure out how to keep Bitcoin viable , while its a "decentralized Cyrptocurrency" that is ASIC centralized and semi-functioning.

[phorensic]

One way to look at the developers is to go here https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/network and scroll down, look at the left column.  Those are the people who have forked, developed, pull requested, and possibly made it into the main bitcoin branch.