I wrote Bitcoin in C++ as a warning.Satoshi Nakamoto (not really)
Some people see a revolutionary monetary system. Satoshi sees legacy code held together by sheer determination and caffeine.
Satoshi Nakamoto wrote Bitcoin's original code in C++, releasing version 0.1 on January 9, 2009. The codebase was remarkably clean for a solo project and demonstrated deep knowledge of cryptography, distributed systems, and economics. Today, Bitcoin Core (the reference implementation) is maintained by hundreds of open-source contributors and has been reviewed more thoroughly than almost any software in history.
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