Satoshi = 21st century Einstein

lol, well he did made you and I comment on a forum based on his idea.

Yeah I agree, kinda harsh to call it 'slop'.

There are a few wallets that don't need to download the blockchain, and like BitCoinDream just said phone apps work fine. I'm sure there will be more of these options in the future too.

The title is a little misleading, but I suppose all headlines are designed to provoke interest.

I'm not sure if he is a coder himself, or whether he is simply paraphrasing others. My interpretation of what he is saying here is that Bitcoin needn't rest on its laurels of being the first mover, and that it's never too late to introduce an alt with real value.

It took some balls to start taking bitcoin payments on the scale that Overstocks did - some call it a purely media stunt, others call it being ahead of the curve (with respect to other larger retailers).

slop.

I don't think describing it in such a negative fashion was such a good move. I don't think bitcoin or the code is slop at all.

You need to look into it more closely. Isn't it unusual to call something a transaction ID when it can be changed? At the very least it's misleading to call something a transaction ID when it doesn't identify a transaction, right? Do you think it's a good idea to have millions of dollars running around a system that a single pool attacker can destroy and devs have known about the problem for years? Don't you think it's a little weird that no one has implemented pruning yet even though Satoshi himself talked about the eventual need? Why are businesses required to make transactions fast by accepting 0-confirm transactions? Can't that problem be fixed? There have been so many cover your ass responses from Bitcoin devs in the last couple of years that I really don't trust anything they say. Byrne is right, Bitcoins code is sloppy and needs improvement.

Most casual users will not download the blockchain.  They will run a SPV client and will need to download blockheaders which are no more than 5MB per year of blockchain history.  Still I doubt this is what he means by slop.  The blockchain, isn't code it is data.  So unless he used a tortured definition of "codebase" I would assume he is referring to the actual code that makes up the bitcoin-core client not the blockchain.

alright Satoshi u have to come out of the wood work now.