I've been reading some old posts of some prolific members here on the forum and here's a quote from DeathAndTaxes to seek your teeth into:
This. The first time I learned about Bitcoin, I took a look at the whitepaper and code I found all kinds of "flaws". It wasn't until hours (days?) of reading and researching that the elegance of the solution became visible (like a Polaroid appearing from the black). It is humbling when you realize that you are looking at the product of someone far above your own capabilities and they have created what you previously considered impossible. In a hundred years in a hundred parallel worlds I wouldn't have come up with the concept of Bitcoin, it was simply too alien. It goes beyond just intelligence, the idea was simply outside my frame of reference. The problem wasn't even one I considered that a solution existed.
Now Satoshi's coding (nuts and bolts)? Blech that is another story but nobody complains that Einstein's notes are hard to read because he had bad handwriting.
DeathAndTaxes is pretty famous around here for his ideas and intelligence. Even though he admits earlier in his statement that the idea of Bitcoin was completely out of his scope of intelligence he then goes on to slightly criticize Satoshi's coding ability.
I'm curious if this is the general view point of the community and also if it is true was there any major adaptions to the code following Gavin and other developers contributing to the project?
I'm trying to go through his other posts in an attempt to find any explanation of this as I've not found anything from some quick searches.
This. The first time I learned about Bitcoin, I took a look at the whitepaper and code I found all kinds of "flaws". It wasn't until hours (days?) of reading and researching that the elegance of the solution became visible (like a Polaroid appearing from the black). It is humbling when you realize that you are looking at the product of someone far above your own capabilities and they have created what you previously considered impossible. In a hundred years in a hundred parallel worlds I wouldn't have come up with the concept of Bitcoin, it was simply too alien. It goes beyond just intelligence, the idea was simply outside my frame of reference. The problem wasn't even one I considered that a solution existed.
Now Satoshi's coding (nuts and bolts)? Blech that is another story but nobody complains that Einstein's notes are hard to read because he had bad handwriting.
DeathAndTaxes is pretty famous around here for his ideas and intelligence. Even though he admits earlier in his statement that the idea of Bitcoin was completely out of his scope of intelligence he then goes on to slightly criticize Satoshi's coding ability.
I'm curious if this is the general view point of the community and also if it is true was there any major adaptions to the code following Gavin and other developers contributing to the project?
I'm trying to go through his other posts in an attempt to find any explanation of this as I've not found anything from some quick searches.
Just start reading the code....
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-source-from-november-2008-382374
https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin
