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The CIA Is Deep into Cryptocurrency, Director Reveals
- syntaxstic 5y agoThere's no information in this article that's useful at all.
- criddell 5y agoI had never heard that Satoshi-Nakamoto-is-the-CIA conspiracy theory before. It doesn't seem all that crazy to me.
- harambae 5y agoWelcome to Vice News tech coverage. To be fair, you're probably not the target audience. At best it's regurgitated news that you should already be aware of from other more direct sources. At worse it's this.
- pstuart 5y agoI guess they're migrating from smuggling drugs to crypto mining with all their "free" hardware?
- 1cvmask 5y agoOr smuggling drugs to buy hardware and bitcoin
- encryptluks2 5y agoI was always under the impression that they have enough crypto to manipulate the markets.
- doopy1 5y agoHaving it alone is not enough to manipulate the markets, you have to move it through exchanges. I guess it's not impossible, just tricky. I think when the rich sell their crypto, they don't do it on the open exchange as they don't want to the price to move when they do so.
- fedreserved 5y agoOdds are they helped develop and encourage it's adoption. Results of crypto 1. One of the primary attack vectors on gold, one of the main enemies of the dollar and federal reserve. 2. Mass speculation and greed in crypto has led to it's adoption, which has led to the talk that we need a digital currency for several reasons. Results of a fully digital currency? Every dollar is tracked, no need for the $600 bank reporting requirement to catch the RICH 3. I still can't see the developer of Bitcoin not being a large group associated with government. Who could resist the temptation to be one of the richest people in the world from your creation, a group who is utilizing it for another purpose.
- newbamboo 5y agoThat explains why my fan keeps kicking on.
- codexcodexcodex 5y agoYours too? (Twilight Zone music.)
- tablespoon 5y agoI mean, of course? It seems like it could be a pretty useful tool for open-source intelligence gathering. > "If it came out (and was proven) that Bitcoin was created by the CIA, it wouldn’t significantly diminish my bullishness. The only thing it would change is my view of Satoshi. But, crucially, Satoshi is not Bitcoin. That connection was severed years ago," tweeted Spencer Schiff, who is a Bitcoin promoter and the son of stock broker and anti-crypto advocate Peter Schiff. Honestly, I'd be surprised if anything would diminish the bullishness of a "Bitcoin promoter." They often give off this weird power of positive thinking vibe where they treat their desired goal as an axiom. Isn't the joke that they'll respond "_____ is good for Bitcoin" in response to pretty much anything, good or bad?
- rich_sasha 5y agoPlus a perfect way to fund spies and dissidents. Bank transfers too easy to track, cash incriminating, handing over a public key for a one-off account trivial.
- tablespoon 5y ago> Plus a perfect way to fund spies and dissidents. Bank transfers too easy to track, cash incriminating, handing over a public key for a one-off account trivial. No? The reasons Bitcoin is useful for open-source intelligence are the exact same reasons why it would be a terrible choice for those use cases. I hope the the CIA isn't dumb enough to have their spies use cryptocurrency that leaves a public record the Chinese Ministry of State Security can trace, now or in the future. Bitcoin does not provide privacy, since any opsec failure, now or in the future, will compromise it.
- nextaccountic 5y agoBitcoin no, but Monero or ZCash, yes
- rich_sasha 5y agoYou know exactly what address got what. But one-off addresses? What exactly are you going to trace? Then you exfiltrate your spy and they have their goodies safely awaiting them.
- _robbywashere 5y agoHappy to know our tax dollars are being spent on Tulip bulbs
- outside1234 5y agoI wouldn't be surprised if they or the NSA created it so there was a way to trace previously dark (aka money in suitcases) money. Totally could imagine Satoshi working at the NSA :)
- dane-pgp 5y agoYou mean Nakamoto SAtoshi? Surely there'd be some sort of clue if that were the case? ;)
- errcorrectcode 5y agoIf you want to find a bunch of criminals, make an anonymous currency exchange and wait patiently. It's not necessarily the case, but it's plausible.
- netizen-936824 5y agoWhat does the CIA do?
- errcorrectcode 5y agoReport to POTUS on foreign adversaries, overthrow democratically-elected leaders, steal information, and drone American teenagers and innocent families. They're not a law-enforcement organization. Edit: They're an international paramilitary insurgent branch of the Executive Branch.
- sneak 5y agoGavin Andresen, a Bitcoin core developer, gave a talk at Langley (CIA HQ) early early early in the Bitcoin timeline, like 2010 or 2011 or so? It was at this point that the person or people known as Satoshi stopped communicating.
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- pyuser583 5y agoIs it surprising the CIA is interested in monitoring secret funds transfers?
- sMarsIntruder 5y agoI’m not that surprised that CIA is deep into the ecosystem. But please guys, the conspiracy of “CIA created Bitcoin”? Seriously? Next phase is gonna be “CIA created Bitcoin to control novax”