Topic: Where are the Japanese? - page 2. (Read 3541 times)

Please. That sounds so ethnocentrically ignorant. I used to live in Japan, kids these days are all over anything new and unusual. Especially tech shit. Especially American shit.
Step out of line? Have you seen what Japanese get into for entertainment over there?

And if you say that they wouldn't be interested in Bitcoin because it undermines their government, Bitcoins have not gotten big enough to have been declared an anti-government activity(yet). It would not at all be considered "stepping out of line". And there is no way they are more authoritarian than the Chinese, and the Chinese are leading the client download chart right now.

This is exactly correct.  Japanese culturally don't like to step out of line.

I've often thought of bitcoin as being started by some government entity.  the romanticism of a lone programer implementing and seeding this technology feels a little too good to be true, but alas these are my feelings.

whom ever owns the initial bitcoins will own the throne of the finicial world if bitcoin takes off... who is Santoshi?

Electricity prices are probably mining cost-prohibitive. But OTOH, Satoshi Nakamoto probably owns 10% or more of the bitcoins just himself.

I think the question has been asked before here, and afai remember some have speculated that the Japanese culture is somewhat more hierarchical and authoritarian.

They are at MtGox!     

I am surprised about how little Japanese representation and news there is in Bitcoin.

The main Bitcoin exchange is based in Japan, the creator of the whole idea has a Japanese name, they are the world's third largest economy, Nikkei is crashing, and they are the techiest country on earth? Why is it not catching on like wildfire there? I have not even seen any comments about Bitcoin coming out of Japan. Surely the idea behind bitcoin would not strike them as strange. Thoughts?



Here's a conspiracy theory for you:
(Just throwing it out there, I don't necessarily believe this, but worth considering.)

Japan gets tired of being under thumb of the US(troops in Okinawa, economy).
Japanese group comes up with brilliant idea of writing the first computer Financial Virus.
Japanese government endorses the plan to throw a wrench in the gears of the US global economy.
Japanese pride insists that at least the anonymous name be Japanese.
Virus released.
Satoshi Nakamoto(group) mines and stores 1M Bitcoins and quietly exits the scene.
Rest of the world runs around like ants trying to get rich implementing this new technology.
Japan sits quiet.
The world bows to the inevitable, the financial virus succeeds. Bitcoin is the world reserve currency, holdings have become more equally distributed.
Those 1M Bitcoins are now a gigantic geopolitical force.
Satoshi releases the coins to the Japanese government.
Japan is now by far the world's richest country, and by default becomes the superpower.
Japanese conquest dreams since World War II : realized.