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by elliotec 1945 days ago
None of those tweets point to anything close to a "profound abortion of an idea" - in fact, I think these are almost supporting the claim. "we could do BitCoin right" and "it fails as a cypherpunk protocol" could be simple self-critiques or misdirections or even sly jokes. Saying bitcoin has an inflated value also doesn't mean this person didn't create it. Didn't Elon just recently say Tesla is way overvalued?

The Unix vs Windows argument is pretty silly. And as mentioned in other comments, the 2014 email is generally regarded as not legitimate.
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kragen 1944 days ago
I never heard Len say anything positive about Bitcoin. He devoted his life to guaranteeing people privacy; Bitcoin makes all transactions permanently public. If he'd managed to design a Bitcoin it would be something like Mimblewimble.

> The Unix vs Windows argument is pretty silly.

That doesn't amount to a counterargument. POSIX C++ and Win32 C++ have very distinctly different styles, and Satoshi's Bitcoin codebase is a lot more similar to the latter.

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