Quote from: Bitinvestor on May 10, 2013, 05:32:24 PM

No. D&T is smart, but he's not THAT smart.

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.

For the record:

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I can't ask him "Are you Satoshi", well, I can, but I bet he will answer "No" in any case.

No.