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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. The yen does not appear even once.
Mark Karpelès acquired Mt. Gox in 2011 and ran it through the 2014 collapse. In 2019 he was acquitted of embezzlement but convicted of falsifying records, and given a suspended sentence.
The only place Satoshi named a country for himself was one unverifiable profile. Language, timestamps, and the one actually Japanese candidate all read against that claim — and against each other.
Three years after Mt. Gox's collapse, Japan's amended Payment Services Act took effect on April 1, 2017, creating a national licensing regime for cryptoasset exchanges.
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.
Japanese software developer and researcher (1970-2013) who released Winny in 2002 and was tried for aiding copyright infringement (2004-2011). A Satoshi candidate in Japanese-language discussion.
The only Japanese-named candidate, creator of the anonymous P2P system Winny. The evidence for Isamu Kaneko as Satoshi, weighed.
The "Satoshi Nakamoto" pseudonym read against the 1980s-90s cyberpunk and techno-orientalist field: a Japanese name on a crypto project arrived already evoking networked anonymous intelligence.
Mt. Gox — once the world's largest Bitcoin exchange handling ~70% of transactions — filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo. CEO Mark Karpeles revealed ~850,000 BTC (~$450M) had been lost.