If you'll allow me to pull a quote from the article, I think it would be interesting to discuss. Satoshi said this in the thread where he was introducting Bitco

If you'll allow me to pull a quote from the article, I think it would be interesting to discuss. Satoshi said this in the thread where he was introducting Bitcoin at the Cryptography mailing list: "I actually did this kind of backwards. I had to write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every problem, then I wrote the paper. I think I will be able to release the code sooner than I could write a detailed spec." http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09980.html http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099... By the way, if you only want to look at one or two projects, Open Transactions and Ripple are the most interesting imho.