> I personally posit that Nakamoto is not even a professional cryptographer, let alone a "world-class expert" or "genius". He probably has a bachelor's and poss

> I personally posit that Nakamoto is not even a professional cryptographer, let alone a "world-class expert" or "genius". He probably has a bachelor's and possibly a master's in Computer Science. Yeah, that's why I made the explicit comparison to Linus. I consider Linus's "inventions" of the linux kernel and git to qualify as genius achievements in software engineering and C programming. He didn't necessarily make ground-breaking discoveries; he didn't do the work in the context of higher academia (in fact he conflicted with academia), yet his innovations had enormous and profound impact. Same with bitcoin. I think these all merit a recalibration of what genius means.