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The problem of "find a series of bytes that is a valid transaction sending these bitcoins to me" is an NP problem. When you can solve arbitrary "find satisfying input" problems, details like "the public key is hashed" don't matter. It's adjusting what it means to be valid, not changing the nature of the problem to be out of scope of "find satisfying input".

Besides, Satoshi's coins are P2PK (Pay to Public Key), not P2PKH (Pay to Public Key Hash), so the point is moot.

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