Equally elucidating are the responses on the Cryptography List from other cryptographers[1], plus the responses a few months later when Bitcoin 0.1 was released[2].
You can pretty easily tell which cryptographers read the whitepaper and which ones did not. :)
You can pretty easily tell which cryptographers read the whitepaper and which ones did not. :)
[1]: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/...
[2]: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/...