Quote from: theymos on April 18, 2011, 01:57:17 AM

Quote from: Steve on April 18, 2011, 12:34:36 AM

I believe Satoshi was working on this idea for quite a while...looking at the code, I don't think this was something he threw together in a couple months. I think he may have been working on it for several years and took great pains to ensure it was sufficiently evolved such that it wouldn't simply die shortly after its release.

He said he was working on it since 2007.

Indeed, found it:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=13.msg46#msg46