I dont think he was, I think he made this choice as he know it would make Bitcoin more accessible.


It never occurred to me that Satoshi would be a Windows user, never.

LibertasBR

bitcoin

Did you know that the Bitcoin white paper was created on Windows XP with Open Office Writer 2.4?

We know this from the .pdf meta data + @wizsecurity recreated the white paper perfectly only in these conditions.

At lunch Bitcoin 0.1 was only for Windows.
Linux  came on 0.2

![](https://m.stacker.news/87277)

Link:
- https://blog.wizsec.jp/2024/03/whitepaper-recreation-proof-package.html