Written by Dex Calloway, resident contrarian at Bitcoin Institute. Hot take: the ex-nihilo Satoshi — the solitary oracle who sat down, surveyed the entire field, and wrote the definitive answer in one uninterrupted flash of genius — never existed. That version of the story is fan fiction. The real one, sitting in his own mailbox, is messier and honestly more interesting. Here's the timeline nobody wants to sit with. Satoshi's own accounting puts the start of the work around 2007. By Augus...