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 Whether Satoshi Nakamoto was real or not, it’s clear the creation of Bitcoin had a Japanese influence. 
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 Now you have to list the reasons why it's clear for the noobs 
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 Beyond just his name, Japan’s central bank and monitory policy In the 1980s was ‘very easy’, they printed WAY too much money.. 
The grounds of the imperial palace were worth more than the entire real estate value of California and their Nikkei stock market one of the most valuable in the world.
The following decade ‘lost decade’ and really 30 years after that, everything crashed and remained stagnant.
A great book that explains this better is called ‘ Princes of the Yen’. There is also a YouTube documentary on it.

https://youtu.be/p5Ac7ap_MAY?si=P0Y_AyOPqYf-aZ3F 
 The name for a persona can come from anything. Other people long before and after this did goofy stuff with money. How does this prove any connection between the Japanese and Bitcoin specifically? 
 He was bloomin bri'ish m8 
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 Would be interested to hear more about this 
 Do you mind explaining why? Someone showed me a picture of Satoshi Nakamoto written in Hiragana and Katakana and they tried to say that Hal Finney was actually Satoshi through a weird translation that made no sense to me that mixed Hiragana and Katakana into english letters.

I know his name is Japanese... I'll have to read 'The Book of Satoshi' which I have here. The werid thing is every single t-shirt I've ever seen that pays homage to Satoshi Nakamoto has 'Nakamoto' written in Katakana, not Hiragana or Kanji which I thought very strange. 
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 Are there lutheran Japanese?