Topic: How long did it take for Satoshi to make the blockchain? - page 2. (Read 3434 times)

When "Satoshi" the alias appeared in late 2008, his code for Bitcoin was already mostly complete.  I had an archive of it in my inbox less than six days after his first post on the Metzdowd cryptography list.   

There's no knowing how long he spent writing it.  But there was unused code in the first released version relating to even larger ideas which ultimately didn't make the cut -- bits of a market, which looks to have been an attempt to do something like a decentralized version of ebay.  -- bits of a reputation tracking system, which looks to have been something like ebay's feedback system and something like a pseudonymous "reputation capital" system.  Ultimately all of that got cut out and just keeping track of the coins became the sole focus.

It looked like a very big project -- bigger perhaps than we know even yet -- but one that got cut back ruthlessly to what could actually be finished and deployed. 

Anyway - there's no knowing really how long he spent on the code. 

It looks like he put all the compute power at his disposal to work for about six days to get the hash on the genesis block that forms the root of the current block chain though - that's judging by the timing of the headline it refers and the timestamp of that block. 

Before that, there were a couple of testing block chains that came to an end when something about the block format needed fixed. But none that ran for more than a day or two.

Approximately 4,000 years of mathematics brought us to this point.

how do you figure?  the concept is simple but there are many details.  it's like saying a combustion engine is a lot simpler than most people make it out to be.

Well it is speculated that Satoshi had posted on an internet forum about the concept of bitcoin in the early 2000's, around the time that paypal first came out.

FYI to the OP - satoshi did not actually "make" the blockchain, the blockchain is the data of the various blocks and is growing roughly once every 10 minutes, by a maximum of 1MB each time it grows. It seems that most people have answered on here as if you were referring to the Bitcoin protocol

Ah I see, maybe his ship was broken and blockchain technology was the easiest way for him to make the billions needed to fix it?

from 1992
http://originalcontroltheory.tumblr.com/post/99362091259/the-creation-of-bitcoin

Is this relevant?
He  may have been thinking about it for 10 years. Who knows? Who cares besides OP?

Satoshi could not have created the blockchain without Hal Finney contributing POW. He created the first reusable proof of work system years before Bitcoin had been created. Without that POW system Bitcoin's blockchain could never have been created.

LOL you are right
It's not the most important question really How long did it take for Satoshi to make the blockchain?
More important is quality and security of this service and if Satoshi have some future plans regarding BTC.
Nobody can answer this questions (only Satoshi), so we can just wait and see what happen next.

Well after the aliens abducted him, it went quickly.... 

I think when someone finds a GREAT disruptive technology like this, he/she would have had little sleep to get it done.

If it was a group of people, it would have been quicker...

The thing is, we will never know.... Gavin often talked to him, it's a pity he did not ask him, when he was still active.  Good question b.t.w OP } 

I remember seeing a reddit post about a while back when someone back in 2005-2006 posted an idea about a digital currency and it was speculated that it was satoshi who was working on the development then. But I would still say would have been close to 2-3 years for him to come up with the idea and develope it.

To add to this, does anyone know how long the idea of Bitcoin/blockchain was being brewed? have we carried out it's once planned vision?

I think I read somewhere that Satoshi mined the genesis block for 7 days, mirroring God's creation of the world either directly or just a mere coincidence.

Years of study, meditation thought went into it... the history was well known on the cryptography forums; The powers that be were too powerful, every attempt had been thwarted. It was the amalgamation of decades of research from thousands of contributors, every attempt was studied and analyzed, all eventualities and paths had to be thought; there are originals from that work floating around. The First Blockchain existed before the official blockchain, if you look around this forum, you can find pieces of the original: From this we can see the bitcoin prototype. formed by collaborators from the cryptography forum.

 I haven't checked the code myself but I can imagine that Bitcoin prototype was much different than the official Bitcoin client; Only pieces of the code are known. the one that I saw had only parts of the entire system working, available only for inspection nothing more without revealing anything of the main design.

The true History is out there, but there are many peoples accounts to consider, to put all the pieces together and truly see what a monumental achievement this was. It was the work of many people collaborating through space and time, hoping their words would be heard by someone who had a solution.

One day it will be remembered as one of the wonders of the world. Archive this post so I can be the first to say it.

Just like the BigBang

I would think that the inception of it was a long process gaining all the knowledge for it.

Yup. I knocked one out in an hour or so in 1997 when I was stuck waiting for a bus. I was originally going to buy a bar of chocolate and pick my nose but then decided it would be less calorific to create a decentralised currency. I was just about to forge the genesis block when my bus arrived. I had some top boogers to deal with so I deleted everything. Hey ho.

He was able to create his masterpiece in under 10 days, but it took almost 18 years to fly here in his spaceship!
In case you don't know, when Satoshi returns rides on his ship will cost only 10 BTC.