"He learnt technical implementations and methodologies, with what he had already acknowledged from Prof. David Rees (introduced below), he then convinced himself he could build something workable. Beyond that, he realized anonymity and trust for third-party are the reasons why those systems all failed eventually based on facts and also his knowledge from reading history of money".

How Bitcoin was created - the inventor and people involved
Feb 26, 2022
https://blog.bsvdata.com/how-bitcoin-was-created-the-inventor-and-people-involved/