Topic: Head Fake: Why the U.S. government would create Bitcoin [fiction] (Read 4251 times)

lol that fits you well. Thanks for digging that up

No smoking gun? Ok ok.

It's not super exciting or smoking gun or anything, just that I was around when it all went down, in the region, and I've got years of experience with how things *usually* work, even secret and complex missions -- like the impressively successful and intensely-planned satellite shootdown we did using proto BMD gear off the Lake Erie in... '07? Something. Anyway, there was way more furtive behavior, never mind I've chatted with a couple ST6 guys (Somali pirate incursions) and they pretty much have the "don't ask" attitude as well. And, a good friend was on the helo that was shot down afterward. So I'm probably biased anyway.

Well, ok, if that's all you want to give us, you will have your reasons, I suppose...

I'll just reply back to you with one of your own statements from another thread Honeybooboo. lol

Let's just say I used to work for the DoD, specifically with the Navy. Phased array radar enhancements for BMD and other TACOPs, geopolitical analysis... basically a numbers guy. Picture Charles Eppes, except not nearly as cool as that, and not usually any criminals. (Piracy occasionally.)

Hahaha that's exactly my point about you, mouthy fool. Figures you would miss that

The CIA was about 60% of SR by value. I assure you the NSA were almost certainly not involved. One thing the NSA does not do, is work WITH the CIA. Lmfao. If anything the NSA facilitated the bust to stop the CIA from causing such negative attention.

thAt on is nice!

Surprise twist.  The NSA and CIA also set up the Silk Road so they could cause inflation by dumping seized assets.

How would you even go about bitching at China? It takes no balls to bitch at someone. That's probably why you're here.

Your daily squealing quota is up. Please go bitch at china while you are at it. Oh wait, you haven't got the balls for that.

Rah rah rah fight dah powa!!!111!!!1!!!!

Fun story but it paints America in too favorable a light. It's hard to get behind fiction that makes America anything but an uncoordinated collection of self serving idiots willing to commit any evil against their own people to get elected.

The NSA would have seen crypto-currency as a phenomenon which was bound to happen eventually.  By having a first mover advantage, they would have a massive leg up on any competition.  Bitcoin accounts for 90% of the market cap of all coins right now.  That is huge.  The majority of people doing big transactions will also migrate towards the most trusted coin, BTC.

So, if the NSA created Bitcoin as a way to control the future of crypto-currency, so far it is an overwhelming success.  Despite the predictable problems of alt-coins, BTC is by and large the primary form of exchange in the crypto world.  Also, there is no evidence whatsoever currently that the NSA had any contribution to the project.  So their hands are clean.  If it were revealed that they were behind the project, it would scare away the audience they would be most interested in, while attracting more and more non-valuable targets.

Care to elaborate? Would be really interesting!

Yeah i exactly... i always feel sorry for the people who belive in Iluminati or similiar stupid shits... i belive in conspiracies, a lot of them, but there are always normal ambitious men behind them, theres no need to play some shit like iluminati :-), i feel really sorry for those people beliveing in iluminati :-).

On the other hand i dont belive in the fact that gov. cannot control bitcoin, if it was made by NSA, because who knows what computer power they might posses currentlcy, who knows wheres the technology for government not known for the public... they might have already a plan how to control bitcoin, quantum pcs for example or a backdoor in sha 256 etc.

Switching to other crypto currencies is not an option, because gov. can simply make them illegal to accept on merchant side...

I do belive more and more that bitcoin was created by some "secret agency" (nsa, cia) to be the "other dolar" or "future dolar" or just to balance the spreading force of yuan...

in the world wars encrypted information became more valuable than anything, this is where Cryptocurrencies where born

I take strong issue with the notion that the US Government is a hive-mind. Pockets know things, pockets are very wrong, many are trying to do good but fucking up because they lack the big picture, and a subset are genuinely just greedy and borderline evil, using the "life's not fair; take what you can while you can" mentality to justify terrible actions.

If the NSA made Bitcoin, for example, they had to know they couldn't control it, merely contain it, so it would just be a massive experiment. That would make them the good guys, btw. Or at least a faction of them. People don't obey orders for two reasons: extreme "alpha" mentality, wrong or not; and, extreme intelligence, wrong or not. They assume they are right (intelligence), or they have the right to be right (dominance). These things make many modern conspiracy theories fall apart in my book.

Don't misunderstand: I don't buy the official story on 9/11 or Benghazi or the capture if OBL. (Actually I have pretty inside info and experience on part of the latter.) I just also don't buy the wrapped-in-a-bow "mainstream" conspiracies either. There's no vast Illuminati-Bilderberg-Reptilian thing plotting and puppeteering. There are factions of varying power, all exerting their influence to the extent possible, sometimes for good, often in an attempt at good, and sometimes for not-so-good. All this collides and out of the resulting turbulence, emerges reality.

Government organs, especially those concerned with national security, have a job of predicting and analyzing forthcoming possibilities. This is entirely reasonable. Many people have seen NSA paper from back in 1990s about potentials of crypto currency.

That was before the dot com boom even took off seriously.

The title should be 'Why US government would create bitcoin and why that's a good thing'. I doubt many would admit this, but they ARE profiting off of it handsomely.

Where's your EBIL US government now? Maybe you want to lodge a protest and bitch at PRC government for their heavy handed crack down on bitcoin? Oh wait, you don't have the balls to bitch at someone who doesn't give a shit

Such obvious cowardly hypocrisy. Just like those gay protesters demonstrating and bitching in front of mormon temples but never at black neighborhoods, vast majority of whom (even more than mormons percentage wise) voted in favor of prop 8.

And you wonder why people don't take you seriously..

I see two possibilities: either the government saw cryptocurrencies coming, or they know how to cripple them. How can you have all those cryptographers and economists on the payroll and still miss this? I think I'm right about where Bitcoin's headed, but I think the government knew before I did.