btclnd on Nostr: I often hear people say that Satoshi wasn’t the best coder or early versions of ...
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.
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