Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin and the blockchain protocol. These two technologies have irrevocably changed the world by transforming the way humans can accomplish commerce and finance. The smallest unit a single bitcoin can be divided into is named a Satoshi, in honor of its inventor.
This proposal is to form a measurement system to count satoshi and bitcoin. The name Satoshi Nakamoto is Japanese in origin. Satoshi means ‘Intelligent History’ (one with smart/wise ancestry)1 while Nakamoto means ‘central origin’ or ‘(one who lives) in the middle’2. The Nakamoto surname is found mostly in the Ryukyu islands close to the cost of Japan2. It would be fitting to form the measurement system for satoshi in a Japanese manner.
One satoshi is equal to 1/100,000,000 (one one-hundred millionth) of a bitcoin which is 0.00000001 bitcoin.
In the Japanese language, the words ‘ichi’, ‘ni’, and ‘san’ mean one, two, and three. We can extrapolate t