[kbenson]

which are easy to understand and reason about but I know for a fact weren't designed by world class crypto-experts

I though Satoshi was anonymous? Do you know something the rest of us don't, or are you making assumptions on the code (and if so, how can you make those assumptions when you also state it was a success)?

[sigmar]

>Bitcoin has multiple extensions, like deterministic hierarchical wallets, which are easy to understand and reason about but I know for a fact weren't designed by world class crypto-experts.

He clearly isn't talking about Satoshi when you look at the entire sentance

[nly]

The extensions I'm talking about were added long after Satoshi left the project.

[kbenson]

Okay, fair enough. I'm curious about the what makes you sure they weren't written by experts though. Do you have knowledge of the implementers that points towards them not being experts?