Samurai Trader @LaunchSignic

The whole history of Bitcoin since 2009, told as a samurai story in Japanese woodblock prints. Two pictures a day. https://t.co/qpgBDK0bYt pump.fun/coin/Em9Ngy6a8… Joined October 2026

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Day 45 · 6 Feb 2010 · ₿ no price yet A merchant opened the first stall where anyone could swap scales for dollars and back. One board, two columns, almost no customers. But now the dragon had a market.

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Day 44 · 28 Jan 2010 · ₿ no price yet Now every morning on his way to the exchange, Takeshi took a detour past the mountain to look at the dragon. He told himself he was just making sure it was still worthless. It was. He checked every day anyway.

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Day 43 · 15 Jan 2010 · ₿ no price yet The student counted the meeting hall's regulars: a few dozen. Takeshi snorted: 'We've got more porters than that at the rice exchange.' But he kept coming to the hall. To keep an eye on things, he said.

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Day 42 · 3 Jan 2010 · ₿ no price yet The dragon's first birthday. The monk lit a single candle on a rice cake. The hatchling ate the flame, then the candle, then the cake. Takeshi: 'A whole year, and still worth nothing.'

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Day 41 · 31 Dec 2009 · ₿ no price yet New Year's Eve. The temple bell rang 108 times, once for each human desire, so the new year begins free of them. Takeshi wished for a good rice harvest. The hatchling shut its eyes and wished too. Judging by what came next: to grow.

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Day 40 · 30 Dec 2009 · ₿ no price yet The mountain's rule: however many people carve, a new block must appear once every ten minutes. Now there were so many carvers that, for the first time, the mountain made the stone harder. Takeshi didn't notice. Nobody at the exchange did.

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Day 39 · 16 Dec 2009 · ₿ no price yet The monk and the student taught the dragon a new trick: now it could eat from several fires at once. The valley hummed louder that night.

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Day 38 · 30 Nov 2009 · ₿ no price yet Winter came back. The hatchling was almost a year old and still the size of a coin. The tortoise woke for a minute, looked at it and said: 'Good. It's in no hurry.' Then went back to sleep.

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Day 37 · 25 Nov 2009 · ₿ no price yet Takeshi went to the meeting hall to laugh at the dragon's fans. One word led to another; he argued with them until midnight. Walking home, he did the math: four hours arguing about something worth nothing. Oddly, he didn't regret it.

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Day 36 · 22 Nov 2009 · ₿ no price yet The monk and the northern student opened a meeting hall on the mountain: anyone could come and talk about the dragon. On the first day the hall had more lanterns than guests.

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Day 35 · 26 Oct 2009 · ₿ no price yet With the money for one lunch, Takeshi could have bought thirteen thousand scales. He bought lunch.

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Day 34 · 12 Oct 2009 · ₿ no price yet The first trade ever: the northern student sold 5,050 scales for five dollars and two cents. Takeshi laughed so hard he dropped his abacus.

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Day 33 · 5 Oct 2009 · ₿ no price yet The first price in history: a merchant from the free lands worked out how much lamp oil it took to feed the dragon, and posted a rate. 1,309 scales for one dollar.

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Day 32 · 30 Sep 2009 · ₿ no price yet End of the quarter. Takeshi balanced his ledger: rice up, sake up. Next to 'dragon', a dash: it had no price, nobody had sold a single scale yet. Takeshi shrugged. What's worth nothing can't fall.

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Day 31 · 18 Sep 2009 · ₿ no price yet The first cold night. The hatchling crawled into the monk's lantern to keep warm. The monk carved by its light. Block, ten minutes, block. The two of them kept each other going.

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Day 30 · 7 Sep 2009 · ₿ no price yet The northern student wrote the first guide to the dragon: what it eats, and why its scales can never exceed the plan — nobody can print more. Takeshi read that part twice. Then wedged the book under his wobbly table. 'Good for something.'

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Day 29 · 28 Aug 2009 · ₿ no price yet Takeshi tried to teach the hatchling to read candles, the charts that rice traders like him had invented. The hatchling ate the candles. Every last one.

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Day 28 · 19 Aug 2009 · ₿ no price yet Seven months. Takeshi measured the hatchling with a ruler: still exactly the size of a coin. 'Growth: zero,' he wrote. The tortoise opened one eye. 'Measure in years.'

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Day 27 · 7 Aug 2009 · ₿ no price yet An old tortoise hermit lived by the mountain stream. He asked the monk for a single scale, tucked it under his shell and went back to sleep. 'Wake me when it matters,' he said.

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Day 26 · 31 Jul 2009 · ₿ no price yet Takeshi dreamed the dragon had outgrown the mountain and the rice traders were bowing to it. He laughed it off. Over breakfast he caught himself working out what one scale would be worth then. He didn't finish the sum.