The thread. In 2015 Come-from-Beyond wrote: “Read early Bitcoin commits, Satoshi set this tradition by himself” — describing how Satoshi would create something “kinda disabled,” then later enable it, hidden inside a commit whose message mentioned something else.
Points toward Satoshi
This checks out. In Bitcoin’s real commit history (e.g. the Oct 29 2009 commit titled about “addr relaying… proxy… privacy patches”), Satoshi quietly shipped time-based nLockTime with the comment: “do not use time based until most 0.1.5 nodes have upgraded,” then scheduled it to activate at a future block height.
That’s not headline trivia — it’s source-level, process-level familiarity with how Satoshi personally worked. Few people on earth study a repo that closely. The author would.
Points against
The commits are public; a dedicated researcher could discover and describe the pattern. CFB also has a documented habit of stating things confidently to seem like an insider. And “Satoshi did sneaky commits” is a known piece of Bitcoin folklore.
Weight
One of the stronger threads. Most “CFB knew X” facts are learnable headlines; this is intimate craft knowledge, and he reached for it naturally. Suggestive, not conclusive.