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Satoshi sized the 21 million cap so amounts would land between 0.01 and 1000. The cent ran through his code, his fees and more than two years of his writing. Yen never appears once.
Governments that banned Bitcoin hardest ended up holding the most of it. A survey of policy reversals across thirty jurisdictions, and the two governments that never reversed at all.
Bitcoin Cash inherited Bitcoin's ledger and 21 million cap at the 2017 fork, then split twice more under implementation teams with no single founder to arbitrate.
Bitcoin's 'digital gold' status rests on two layers of decentralization — system and people/organization — and six structural features no later cryptocurrency combines to the same degree.
How Bitcoin's 21 million cap emerges from a geometric halving series, how block rewards transition from subsidy to fees, and how the incentive model sustains honest mining.
What Satoshi's design assumed about a fee-only future, and the documented debate over whether transaction fees alone can sustain proof-of-work security after the block subsidy ends around 2140.
Software engineer at Google (Maps, Earth, Gmail anti-spam) who contacted Satoshi in April 2009, became an early contributor, and built BitcoinJ. His Satoshi correspondence was made public in 2017.
Jeff Garzik, one of Bitcoin's earliest core developers, reflects on his work with Satoshi. He discovered Bitcoin via a July 2010 Slashdot post and became one of the top three contributors.