Nadav Ivgi
Ambassador at Bitrated
Israel
Summary
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RockstarNadav Ivgi is a seasoned software developer and entrepreneur with over a decade of professional experience focused on Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and decentralized trustless technologies. He co-founded Bitrated and Renfinitum, blending product-minded engineering with security and reputation systems for the crypto economy. As an open-source contributor he has strengthened core Bitcoin tooling—working on rust-bitcoin, rust-bitcoincore-rpc and libwally-core—and helped bring WASM/TypeScript builds and improved RPC coverage to widely used libraries. A long-time Ambassador at Bitcoin Embassy TLV, he pairs community advocacy with hands-on backend and full-stack work, from hardening bitcoin explorers to adding CSRF/password protection and CLI utilities. Comfortable across Node.js, Rust, Python and traditional web stacks, he brings a rare mix of protocol-level contributions and practical deployment experience.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (36)
json-rpc10
javascript10
expressjs10
testing10
bitcoin10
typescript10
bitcoins10
c1110
rust-wasm10
wasm-pack10
c1710
script10
rpc10
script-engine10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoincore-rpc
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Rust RPC client library for the Bitcoin Core JSON-RPC API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 18 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nadav primarily contributed to the `rust-bitcoincore-rpc` library, enhancing its functionality and compatibility. Their work included implementing new RPC methods like `get_mempool_entry`, `list_since_block`, `uptime`, `get_network_hash_ps`, `get_tx_out_set_info`, and `get_net_totals`. They also addressed compatibility issues with Bitcoin Core versions, added deserialization support for `ImportMultiRescanSince`, and fixed various fields, demonstrating a strong understanding of the Bitcoin RPC API.
bitcoin-corejson-rpcrpcrust
janoside/btc-rpc-explorer
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
Database-free, self-hosted Bitcoin explorer, via RPC to Bitcoin Core.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 48 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nadav primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the Bitcoin explorer. Their contributions included making configuration options more flexible, adding support for environment variables, and integrating features like password protection and CSRF protection. Furthermore, the user improved the application's robustness by addressing potential issues related to transaction indexing and pruning, ensuring the explorer's proper operation in various Bitcoin node setups. They also added a CLI utility for easier interaction.
bitcoinbitcoin-coredatabaserpcnodejs
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