Only someone who doesn't understand that software engineer = profession...
Would buy that a hobbyist coder could produce even the somewhat sloppy BTC code base...
In the most difficult language to code in = C.
An amateur would simply never get it to work.
It's as if you believed that Mochizuki could perform a heart transplant or fly a jet fighter in combat...
Without putting in the 10,000 hours required to become a professional surgeon or pilot.
I somewhat tend to agree. And again Nash is the only one that seemingly fits this, since he was around since well before the history of the internet, and most programming languages. Although its true either could have contracted the work out. Who is likely to use the words "bloody hard". Is it a British saying, or old English culture?
I think rather bitcoin was created by someone who had such a vast and incredible knowledge of the systems and functions of computers and their languages that it would take more than the average lifetime to accumulate. Someone who might have predicted years ago that computers could arranged in a highly parallel and decentralized fashion:
The basic idea is simple. Instead of having a single control unit sequencing the operations of the machine in series (except for certain subsidiary operations as certain input and output functions) as is now done, the idea is to decentralize control with several different control units capable of directing various simultaneous operations and interrelating them when appropriate.
It seems clear that as soon as the machines become able to solve intellectual problems of the highest difficulty which can be solved by humans they will be able to solve most of the problems enormously faster than a human. In closing, the human brain is a highly parallel setup.
It has to be.
Someone who spent many many years understanding and study economics and its relation to the history of man. There are very few peoples in this world with such a holistic view, and I tend to think that we are underestimating the bitcoin.pdf and the whole project. "Satoshi" presented it as a whim, like it was a random realization. But we shouldn't be fooled by the presentation, years and years of contemplation and study likely went into this final implementation.
And remember what Ted said:
That is how Sherlock Holmes would do it look for the pattern aided by an author who already knew the answer. Ted Nelson