On January 8, 2026, the Bitcoin Core development team promoted anonymous developer TheCharlatan (sedited) to Trusted Keys maintainer, marking the first expansion of core members with main branch commit rights since May 2023. With this, the number of PGP key maintainers with commit permissions for Bitcoin Core has increased to six, including Marco Falke, Gloria Zhao, Ryan Ofsky, Hennadii Stepanov, Ava Chow, and TheCharlatan. TheCharlatan graduated from the University of Zurich with a degree in computer science, focusing primarily on reproducible builds and verification logic. Their appointment received unanimous support during discussions among core contributors. (Protos) https://www.(wublock123.com)/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=6&id=54961