PANews reported on February 6th that, according to Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao has resigned from her position as maintainer and revoked her cryptographic signing key. She has long focused on areas such as mempool verification, transaction forwarding, and fee estimation. Her resignation will not affect Bitcoin's consensus rules, network security, or transaction processing.

The report points out that it is common practice in open-source projects for maintainers to resign and revoke keys. The Bitcoin Core maintainers are a small, trusted group of developers responsible for code review, update approval, and digitally signing official versions using keys. Zhao contributed to Bitcoin Core development for over six years, but his work did not involve changing the underlying protocol rules of Bitcoin. Zhao did not respond to questions regarding the specific reasons for his departure.