Bitcoin has a new lead developer, Wladimir van der Laan, and with the ecosystem growing every day he is going to have a lot on his hands over the next year.

We asked Van der Laan what major issues affecting the bitcoin core are on his radar. Here are his four main priorities:

1. Splitting off the Bitcoin-Qt wallet from the P2P core code

At the moment, the core functions of the bitcoin client, processing new transactions and maintaining the history of old transactions, share the space as information about the wallet you set up using the client.

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