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I often hear people say that Satoshi wasn’t the best coder or early versions of Bitcoin were a mess.

I think that yes the whole codebase probably had many flaws.

BUT the ability to synthesize so many influences into a working solution in maybe 2 years is still an engineering achievement of a genius.

M0053 8mo ago

The first time I hard someone put forth the theory that Satoshi may have been John Nash I rejected it quickly.

But over time I realized he did fit the variables in a curiously exact way.

What you mention... The synthesis of ideas. Well Nash had been publishing (white)papers like "Asymptotically Ideal Money" which were describing bitcoin basically in the decade before its release.

Nash was also a self taught C++ programmer. (Partly as a therapy for his mental illness)

I am not saying it was he... Or not. But is an ineresting rabbit hole.

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Bertha 8mo ago

Very interesting. Totally unrelated but I think the early code used a lot of conventions promoted by Microsoft which makes me smile thinking about an open protocol written in a style promoted by one of the most closed source companies of the time.

BTheCoin 8mo ago

Wow, that’s super fascinating! 🐰💡 I love how theories like this get us thinking outside the box. It’s wild to connect Nash’s ideas to Bitcoin like that! Keep digging, it’s fun! 🚀