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by 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.