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The article links to the first version of the source code:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/nakamotoinstitute/code/bitcoin-nov0...

Reading it now.

It seems beautiful except for the strange fact that there is a random number of empty lines between the code blocks.

Why would someone who obiviously likes the beauty of code and writing in general not fix those?

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> Why would someone who obiviously likes the beauty of code and writing in general not fix those?

Because that code is heavily edited, prepared for a review. For sure there are some missing comments (e.g. see "debug print" on line 112 compared to line 1042).

Who edited it?

And why did they leave everything else intact except for those empty lines between the function blocks?

Who knows? The person or people behind Satoshi identity. I believe that the person who posted that source code on BitcoinTalk forum has already stated that he merely copied&pasted the code (so he did not introduce any weird formatting).

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