So, the only piece of evidence pointing to a government is the lack of reviewers, which IMO is a pretty weak indicator. Why would Bitcoin need a ton of reviewer

So, the only piece of evidence pointing to a government is the lack of reviewers, which IMO is a pretty weak indicator. Why would Bitcoin need a ton of reviewers? It's not like it was designed to replace critical parts of the economy overnight. Tons of non-academic "research" is released into the wild (such as nearly all commercial software) with zero peer review. I mean, there's no peer review of AirBNB, that doesn't make it a NSA operation (or does it? Hmm..). My impression is that BTC is a relatively simple application of existing (peer reviewed) crypto-tech, and could therefore have been invented by a single, or small group of, dedicated crypto scientists.