Topic: Gavin will visit the CIA - page 2. (Read 152933 times)

You know, it's absurd conspiracy theories like this that give bitcoin a bad name. Everyone knows that the ENIAC "prophecy" was debunked long ago by the researchers at XEROX PARC. There is no shred of evidence to suggest that it should be taken seriously, and anyone who continues to cling to that failed machine's teachings needs to have the chip in their brain examined.

The chip also had the unforeseen side effect of splitting Gavin's consciousness into several distinct personalities, including, but probably not limited to, Phinnaeus, Atlas, and pirateat40. CIA technicians are hard at work writing the program for his ultimate mission: hunting down Satoshi and returning his/her brain for study. Little do they know, Satoshi's identity was discovered several months ago by a secretive cabal of Bitcoin worshipers and his/her brain has been divided into three equal portions and is in the custody of Nefario, Matthew, and Vladimir, to be reunited when the blockchain is in imminent danger, as foretold in the Great Prophecy of ENIAC in 1954.

A computer chip was inserted into Gavin's brain, rendering him a remote controlled operative of the CIA. He has given all the secret keys to the government and is helping to identify all bitcoin users who use Silk Road and who donate to wikileaks.

Also, it was recently revealed that Gavin is, in fact, an alien.

A computer chip was inserted into Gavin's brain, rendering him a remote controlled operative of the CIA. He has given all the secret keys to the government and is helping to identify all bitcoin users who use Silk Road and who donate to wikileaks.

I'm way to lazy to read/search this thread. Can someone please tell me what the result of this presentation was?

This actually strengthens my point even further.

In September 1940, George Stibitz used a Teletype machine to send instructions for a problem set from his Model at Dartmouth College to his Complex Number Calculator in New York and received results back by the same means. Linking output systems like teletypewriters to computers was an interest at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) when, in 1962, J.C.R. Licklider was hired and developed a working group he called the "Intergalactic Computer Network", a precursor to the ARPANET.
 Early networks of communicating computers included the military radar system Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), started in the late 1950s.
 The commercial airline reservation system semi-automatic business research environment (SABRE) went online with two connected mainframes in 1960.[2][3]
 In 1964, researchers at Dartmouth developed the Dartmouth Time Sharing System for distributed users of large computer systems. The same year, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research group supported by General Electric and Bell Labs used a computer to route and manage telephone connections.
 Throughout the 1960s Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran and Donald Davies independently conceptualized and developed network systems which used packets that could be used in a network between computer systems.
 1965 Thomas Marill and Lawrence G. Roberts created the first wide area network (WAN). This was an immediate precursor to the ARPANET, of which Roberts became program manager.
 The first widely used telephone switch that used true computer control was introduced by Western Electric in 1965.
 In 1969 the University of California at Los Angeles, the Stanford Research Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah were connected as the beginning of the ARPANET network using 50 kbit/s circuits.[4]

The foundation and later development of the Internet is more than you both think:

http://youtu.be/9hIQjrMHTv4

ARPANET (Military - USA)
http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~acc/docs/arpa.html

RAND (Military - USA)
http://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html

NPL (Commercial - UK)
http://www.tnmoc.org/explore/npl-technology-internet-gallery

CYCLADES (Academic - France)
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/think/Cyclades/

Everything is created on top of something and serves as a foundation for something else. The military have only contributed with the networking protocol - TCP. The idea to merge the technologies of personal computers, computer networking (TCP) and hypertext was entirely developed in CERN. CERN was the place where the first web browser and the first web server were created. CERN was the place where HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee.

TCP/IP and the basic (layer 1 & layer 2 - meaning the FOUNDATIONS) protocols of the internet were created by the military. CERN only built on top of that.

I do.

I don't want to be part of any arpa/darpa project designed to divert common people from using gold as money just because the US are preparing for the post dollar era trying to maintain its monetary monopoly as much as they can. The problem with bitcoin is not the protocol itself as it is a FOSS. The problem is the mining pools!

Oh, and what people use in their every day life is the World Wide Web. It was not created by the military. It was created in CERN Switzerland by Tim Berners-Lee: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/about/WebStory-en.html

No. The only thing that this key can do is signing an alert message that propagates through the network.

Satoshi, Gavin and theymos have this key, IIRC.

The Internet is also a creation of the military. Who cares ?

Doesn't matter really. The day they open-sourced it, they lost control over it. Now everybody can benefit from Bitcoin, and nobody can control it without using **significant** money and resources. And I mean multi-billion-dollar-significant (however even that money doesn't guarantee success).

The Internet is also a creation of the military. Who cares ?

I wouldn't be even a little surprised if it turned out Satoshi and Bitcoin are creations of the CIA

ok so just 1 yes/no question:
Is it possible that Gavin gave the CIA a method to shutdown Bitcoin?

ok so just 1 yes/no question:
Is it possible that Gavin gave the CIA a method to shutdown Bitcoin?