> "Satoshi" (or this group of people) must have worked months or a year on this before putting it up on source control.
In one [0] of his emails to Mike Hearn [1] Satoshi Nakomoto wrote that he worked on Bitcoin for two years before releasing the paper and code:
> I must admit, this project was 2 years of development before release, and I could only spend so much time on each of the many issues.
His emails to Hearn and others make clear that his creative process consisted mainly of writing code until he was convinced things worked. In my opinion, Satoshi Nakomoto was a lone hacker.