Oleg Andreev



Software designer with focus on user experience and security.

You may start with my selection of articles on Bitcoin.

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Product architect at Chain.

Author of Gitbox version control app.

Author of CoreBitcoin, a Bitcoin toolkit for Objective-C.

Author of BTCRuby, a Bitcoin toolkit for Ruby.

Former lead dev of FunGolf GPS, the best golfer's personal assistant.


I am happy to give you an interview or provide you with a consultation.
I am very interested in innovative ways to secure property and personal interactions: all the way from cryptography to user interfaces. I am not interested in trading, mining or building exchanges.

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May 9

Objective-C @property attribute suggestion

I would love to have the following feature in Objective-C:

@property(retain, auto) id something;

Where “auto” attribute would mean:

1) automatic @synthesize (already present in modern Clang compiler)
2) “nonatomic” if not stated otherwise
3) automatic release (if “retain” or “copy” is used) and nullifying of instance variable on dealloc