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NSA inventing crypto honestly seems like one of the less implausible conspiracies. I mean they basically compromised Tor already. They have a vested interest i
by steveBK123 4y ago
NSA inventing crypto honestly seems like one of the less implausible conspiracies. I mean they basically compromised Tor already.
They have a vested interest in tracking decentralized communications and assets.
The pseudonymous nature coupled with its public ledger actually make it great for an NSA type entity to track fund movement by people who think they are operating in the darkness.
- kkielhofner 4y agoThe US government invented and funds Tor (more or less). Along your lines of thought I think it’s obvious “Satoshi” shows up out of nowhere, drops exquisite crypto code that provides an open network that attracts exchange of funds that largely end up being illicit, and then sits on wallets worth significant amounts of money to anyone other than the US government (current Satoshi wallet value is $42b, estimated annual NSA budget alone is $65b and all in it’s likely many multiples of that). The US government can and does spend trillions on war. If it came to that taking down bitcoin is a rounding error. It has NSA written all over it and given what we already know of the capabilities of the NSA if it wasn’t created by them one way or another (push come to shove) the US government could shut it down at the bat of an eye. Anything else is bitcoin maxi wishful thinking.
- defrost 4y agoOthers might think it equally obvious that Satoshi is Yet Another Bourbaki of computational algebraists who can no longer sign a cryptographic quorum.