Quote from: gmaxwell on Today at 08:16:03 PM

Particularly with Gavin-- no surprise if you knew what Gavin's first message to Satoshi was...

And "could have been leaked"-- is that how he rationalized handing it over to Wright?

Can you remind me what his first message was?

In the meantime, I think you might enjoy this:

Quote from: satoshi on June 17, 2010, 06:46:08 PM

The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime. Because of that, I wanted to design it to support every possible transaction type I could think of. The problem was, each thing required special support code and data fields whether it was used or not, and only covered one special case at a time. It would have been an explosion of special cases. The solution was script, which generalizes the problem so transacting parties can describe their transaction as a predicate that the node network evaluates. The nodes only need to understand the transaction to the extent of evaluating whether the sender's conditions are met.
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I don't believe a second, compatible implementation of Bitcoin will ever be a good idea. So much of the design depends on all nodes getting exactly identical results in lockstep that a second implementation would be a menace to the network. The MIT license is compatible with all other licenses and commercial uses, so there is no need to rewrite it from a licensing standpoint.