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wp381640 | 4 years ago

> I still think it was Hal Finney

Finney didn't mix British and American English the way Satoshi did in his writing.

Finney was also an experienced and much better developer[0] than Satoshi[1]

[0] https://github.com/halfinney/bitcoin/commit/dc411b51e0a3cffc...

[1] https://github.com/Maguines/Bitcoin-v0.1/blob/master/bitcoin...

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derangedHorse|4 years ago

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|4 years ago

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