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Re:The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment by anonx on Friday January 15, 2016 @11:31AM (#10910292)
> You may have noticed Mike Hearn isn’t in the top 100 contributors list.

I've also noticed, there are no any Satoshi Nakomotos in the list of contributors. Does that mean he (Satoshi) was "not impactful to the development"?

P.S.: I'm not following the Bitcoin news. Is Satoshi a nickname of one of those top contributors or the initial author just didn't use version control system? Or am I missing something?

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Re:The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment by LukeHoersten on Friday January 15, 2016 @12:10PM (#10910581)
Yeah I was using that as a transition to talk about Mike's other contributions. His bitcoinj contributions are hundreds of thousands of lines. Also I said "Lines of code are only a proxy for impact" and unfortunately there's probably no realistic measure.

I'm not a bitcoind contributor and this is more of a generic observation about how open source projects are controlled in general.

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Re:The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday January 16, 2016 @09:32AM (#10915335)
Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym used by Bitcoin's creator and first developer. Anyway, I believe that if Nakamoto never made a GitHub account then they wouldn't show up in the list, even if they had commits.
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