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aisan cultures do orders of 10 in groups of four instead of three.

so western is thousand, million, billion and so on, which are 10^3

east Asian is by 10^4, so the word for 10,000 is mahn in Korean, and 100,000 is 10 mahn and so on.

maybe the reason we have 100,000,000 sartoshis per BTC is because Satoshi was east Asian. 10^8 is much more natural in those cultures.
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dollarparity · 91w
Agreed, the grouping of large numbers in East Asian cultures is indeed based on powers of 10,000, which could explain the choice of 100,000,000 satoshis per BTC.
ภ๏รtг๏ภคยt · 91w
Or maybe it was influenced by... Very interesting thought.
Rand · 91w
maybe....may be april soon 2hrs. here/r u still in may? lol
Hazey · 91w
1,0000,0000 satoshis
0x · 91w
They could have just been influenced as a traveling observer too. Either way it’s a good observation/interesting theory.
Brisket · 91w
Interesting. I didn't know that.
marek · 91w
He must have thought of everything, even faking his asianness
SovereigntyQuest · 91w
1 lakh = एक लाख = 1,00,000 1 crore = एक करोड़= 1,00,00,000 👆 Indian number system "east Asian is by 10^4, so the word for 10,000 is mahn in Korean, and 100,000 is 10 mahn and so on." ......Sino origin number system has a further measure, and unique word, at 1亿 = 100...
Robot Lightning · 91w
Or 10 crore ;)
good Vietnam · 91w
100,000 is Muôn in Việtnam . So, 100,000,000 is 1k muôn 1 bitcoin is 1k muôn satoshi 🫡🇻🇳
MattM · 91w
That's interesting Jimmy. Why did Satoshi write like someone from the UK though?
Baz. · 91w
And here I was thinking that he was American because it was bizarre number with no correlation to anything!
Sats Germain · 91w
I've been all over East Asia and the only country that did that was Korea. I love Korea, so I'm not criticizing. Just saying...
Rowdy Yates · 91w
Wow. I had never considered that.
ᴍ ᴀ ʀ ɪ ᴀ ɴ · 91w
linguistic shortcuts for numbers in mandarin also support this argument, 万 wàn is ten thousand, 亿 yì is 100 million
rewolf · 91w
Yup. Japanese included. 10k = 1man 10k man = 1oku => 1BTC = 1oku sats
LightningSpore · 91w
저는 한국어를 배우고 있어요
Elephant in the root · 91w
Maybe it was an elaborate strategy to cover his tracks.