Yakovenko: Bitcoin's original code is the coolest software in 20 years
Anatoly Yakovenko · Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money · Sep 18, 2025 · at 22:31
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko contrasts Solana's high-performance complexity with Bitcoin's elegant, simple architecture at the All-In Summit.
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“The coolest piece of software written in the last 20 years is, I would say, the Bitcoin, like, Nakamoto implementation.”
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