The bitcoin protocol is nowhere nearly as complicated as Mochizuki's proof. The Bitcoin whitepaper can be understood without difficulty by most "laymen", i.e. c

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