The bitcoin protocol is nowhere nearly as complicated as Mochizuki&#x27;s proof. The Bitcoin whitepaper can be understood without difficulty by most &quot;laymen&quot;, i.e. common programmers of modest ability such as myself. And Satoshi&#x27;s original code was decidedly amateurish. Satoshi was clever in solving the consensus problem, but he&#x27;s not some master cryptographer.