"a near perfect academic quality paper on the seminal algos" What paper are you referring to? The original Bitcoin whitepaper was poorly written, demonstrated

"a near perfect academic quality paper on the seminal algos" What paper are you referring to? The original Bitcoin whitepaper was poorly written, demonstrated limited background research (including a failure to cite the vast body of previous work on e-cash, which seems pretty obviously relevant), and probably would not have been accepted at even a third-tier conference. Really, people idolize Satoshi to an absurd degree. There is no reason to think Bitcoin is anything more than a hobby project that, for a combination of reasons, happened to become something big enough for non-tech folks to care about.