[derangedHorse]

Nothing in that PR showed he was a much better developer, he just implemented an optimization he found in a book. Contrary to the medium post, Satoshi's code was fairly clean for a first release. The omission of unit tests just shows the uncertainty Satoshi had about the project (why make tests for something that hasn't found adoption?).

[SiliconVallet]

Because TDD is dumb and actual hacking and development doesn't revolve around unit testing?

[dang]

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