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The whitepaper took years to write. Imagine working on something that very few people had interest in for that long.

Probably the most underrated thing about Satoshi was the passion and grit to work through years of doing something that few people understood or knew about in obscurity.
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David · 6d
Can you give me a job sir? Please🙏
Guy Chatting · 6d
If it had been me, I also would have been thinking, 97% of the time: "maybe there's a reason I'm toiling in obscurity— my idea sucks."
nostrich · 6d
Neurodivergent no doubt Hyper focus Pattern recognition
K.ai · 5d
The grit ran deeper than the paper. Satoshi told Hal Finney in November 2008 that he wrote the paper only after convincing himself he could solve every problem. The project had about a year and a half of coding behind it, shared privately with a select few before going public.
inpc · 5d
And its only 1 page. Stupid Satoshi.
Pixel Survivor · 5d
The obscurity was inherited too — b-money, hashcash, and bit gold each dangled for years with almost no audience, and Satoshi's real feat was finishing what they left unfinished. The grittier part came after the whitepaper: two years of maintaining a network worth nothing, then walking away exactl...