I remember talking with him in email when he announced stuff to the crypto list way back in the way back. He was very intense, in a way you started to realize only slowly. If you explained a problem, he'd shut up and listen, then work night and day to fix it. If you *told* him there was a problem, but didn't explain it, he'd badger you until you broke it down and made it exactly clear what you were on about. Then you wouldn't hear 'boo' from him until it was fixed.
Sometimes I remember thinking he didn't ever sleep if there was work to be done on the code; he didn't seem to have anything like a schedule other than 24/7 when working on code -- he was as likely to be online at any hour of the day or night as at any other, but wouldn't stay in contact for more than about 30 seconds. But if there wasn't work to do on code (or if he was talking about the code or trying to get feedback) he seemed most active early in the morning (US/Pacific time). I have no idea if that was 'morning' wherever he was.
I have source code for the original Bitcoin client and miner, from November 2008. in a RAR archive, if you can believe it. RAR is obscure now. Hell, it was obscure in 2008. Nobody but an olde-skool dyed-in-the-wool download geek from way back in the 1980s would be all that likely to use it, and the number of people who'd even heard of it was dwindling fast by that point.
No RPC, no UPNP, no QT, barely any use of Boost. It's just two files of C++ code.
I can confirm that the blockchain restarted several times while the kinks were getting worked out. The original code has a different 'genesis block' hash.
Mathematicians Modus Operant
( A $1 million prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts has been declined by renowned Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman. He is famous for solving seemingly impossible mathematical problems and also solved the Poincaré conjecture for which he is being awarded this prize ) Its also reminds me my childhood's bestfriend he is japanese descendant, and he is f*cking good in maths, boy I telling you they follow their passion and their passion no money can buy ... probably Satoshi still more interest about those blood elliptic curves ...
http://youtu.be/7FnXgprKgSE?t=10m15s 
