Topic: Is this how most people percieve Bitcoin? An NSA honeypot?? (Read 1848 times)
Well if God doesn't know I'm using drugs by now, He should.
Has anyone noticed how "BTC" looks somewhat similar to CIA when the letters are reversed ? lol
CTB = CIA
CTB = CIA
That is ridiculous man, I couldnt have been more amazed by your discovery. Maybe btc was created by the cia in order to control the people interested in cryptocurrency while they push fiat and leave us all out in the streets screaming "bitcoin" and making us seem like lunatics! It all makes sense!
"Gavin will visit the CIA" --> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gavin-will-visit-the-cia-6652
Satoshi vanished weeks before this meeting took place. The asic pre-order hype, scams and the massive gpu sell off, followed not long after.
"Gavin will visit the Council on Foreign Relations" --> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gavin-will-visit-the-council-on-foreign-relations-412846
And here is where I'm guessing they decided on how to finish centralizing the living shit out of BTC/ cryptos.
Has anyone noticed how "BTC" looks somewhat similar to CIA when the letters are reversed ? lol
CTB = CIA
CTB = CIA
That is ridiculous man, I couldnt have been more amazed by your discovery. Maybe btc was created by the cia in order to control the people interested in cryptocurrency while they push fiat and leave us all out in the streets screaming "bitcoin" and making us seem like lunatics! It all makes sense!
Most people get their information from the media, and the largest bitcoin headlines consist of seizures and illegal activities, undoubtedly this will reach some people and this will be what they think.
Has anyone noticed how "BTC" looks somewhat similar to CIA when the letters are reversed ? lol
CTB = CIA
CTB = CIA
A honeypot for what exactly?
Maybe a DEA honeypot but those people have enough problems of their own. NSA is focused on code breaking, so while they might one day break bitcoin I don't see them using it to track us and all out activities down.
There is also the logic argument. Why? What kind of honeypot gives out honey?
I have serious doubt about the integrity based the outcome of the pool conducted. First it never show the background of the people selected for the pool nor does it give any other further information. From what I see here from the results, it goes to show how misinformed people generally are or should I say the trust level that people have in bitcoin is at a low level. It's like they see it as a trap. But more interesting is that, is there a possibility that the number of those people who claim to have zero knowledge of bitcoin are also being categorized into the same group of people who says that they can't trust the network. So it's like telling two different sides of the story although you are referring to the same scenario and condition.
This isn't any serious research with carefully selected 'representative group'. This is just another internet poll open to everyone. I don't think it even prevents multiple voting. And you should view it as such.
Plus, one non-standard answer placed among standard, boring answers will always get a lot of votes. If they put "Potato" instead of "Be revealed as a giant NSA honeypot" - the result would be similar.
Yep... That's basically it. You could have even gone as far as to include even more ridiculous answers than the NSA claim. It's stories like these that make Bitcoin critics ("Buttcoiners") rejoice...
I have serious doubt about the integrity based the outcome of the pool conducted. First it never show the background of the people selected for the pool nor does it give any other further information. From what I see here from the results, it goes to show how misinformed people generally are or should I say the trust level that people have in bitcoin is at a low level. It's like they see it as a trap. But more interesting is that, is there a possibility that the number of those people who claim to have zero knowledge of bitcoin are also being categorized into the same group of people who says that they can't trust the network. So it's like telling two different sides of the story although you are referring to the same scenario and condition.
This isn't any serious research with carefully selected 'representative group'. This is just another internet poll open to everyone. I don't think it even prevents multiple voting. And you should view it as such.
Plus, one non-standard answer placed among standard, boring answers will always get a lot of votes. If they put "Potato" instead of "Be revealed as a giant NSA honeypot" - the result would be similar.
not really surprised by results...only shows that there is no unique view on the future of bitcoin. which again is not surprising given the volatility of this currency.
I have serious doubt about the integrity based the outcome of the pool conducted. First it never show the background of the people selected for the pool nor does it give any other further information. From what I see here from the results, it goes to show how misinformed people generally are or should I say the trust level that people have in bitcoin is at a low level. It's like they see it as a trap. But more interesting is that, is there a possibility that the number of those people who claim to have zero knowledge of bitcoin are also being categorized into the same group of people who says that they can't trust the network. So it's like telling two different sides of the story although you are referring to the same scenario and condition.
That most definitely is just a "funny" and "edgy" response of the people. I mean it would be really really quite some revelation if it really was started by the NSA... Just imagine! Nah, I don't see any solid reason why this should be true, either - they wouldn't benefit from that a lot (if at all)!
I'm sure the poll was trolled or was just voted on by paranoid idiots. I think it's safe to say most people will not believe it to be an NSA invention but I'm sure many people see it as a currency for criminals unfortunately (which we know is not the case).
In general people are just not familiar with history of bitcoin, protocols, algorithms and other technical stuff bitcoin is based on. Secret of Satoshi origin and identity is just too enticing for people to pass on, of course they will be creating theories that he is lead scientist in NSA team or something like that. They may be right, but for general purposes spreading news like that is harmful for btc imo.
Oh they most certainly are going to monitor the stuff that interests them, that's what intelligent agencies do, but to think that they can actually control an open source technology is a new level of stupidity for me, people like this really piss me off because they seem to take pride in being this moronic.
To me it's the equivalent of saying "I have a stupid an uninformed opinion and you're not allowed to argue with it because it's MY opinion and I'm going to run around screaming it at everybody as loud as possible even if I've completeley made everything up" they're spreading this bullshit to people who don't know any better and Mike Maloney got taken in by it a bit as well but luckily he's intelligent so he went off and did his own research on Bitcoin.
My favourite one is that douchebag who made a video on youtube just to say I don't know anything about Bitcoin and like any good American I don't trust what I don't understand.
To me it's the equivalent of saying "I have a stupid an uninformed opinion and you're not allowed to argue with it because it's MY opinion and I'm going to run around screaming it at everybody as loud as possible even if I've completeley made everything up" they're spreading this bullshit to people who don't know any better and Mike Maloney got taken in by it a bit as well but luckily he's intelligent so he went off and did his own research on Bitcoin.
My favourite one is that douchebag who made a video on youtube just to say I don't know anything about Bitcoin and like any good American I don't trust what I don't understand.
They're utterly, utterly stupid, the fact is the people haven't even glanced at Bitcoin properly and are just making up their own bullshit, we all know it's open source and anyone can look into the code so this assertion makes absolutely no sense. Before I used to feel like we should argue with these assholes but now they're just annoying because they're like others who simply refuse to take a proper look at it and investigate how it works so they just make it up.
While I agree with the assertion regarding Bitcoin's open source nature, theoretically the original creation of Bitcoin could have been a move to find all of the people with anti-government sentiment/criminal activity (as it seems to be a logical candidate for criminal payment) by another government entity. This is really kind of tin foil hat level (so I don't really believe it), but we can't know for sure if Bitcoin and its movement and transactions aren't being monitored on a regular basis.
They're utterly, utterly stupid, the fact is the people haven't even glanced at Bitcoin properly and are just making up their own bullshit, we all know it's open source and anyone can look into the code so this assertion makes absolutely no sense. Before I used to feel like we should argue with these assholes but now they're just annoying because they're like others who simply refuse to take a proper look at it and investigate how it works so they just make it up.
The 11% who asked "What is Bitcoin?" are far more honest with themselves and are the people we should be spending time on.
The 11% who asked "What is Bitcoin?" are far more honest with themselves and are the people we should be spending time on.
The 30% are obviously NSA stooges 
The NSA would be stupid to create a HoneyPot in a Open source environment. 
They already have HUGE amounts of information through backdoors in SSL and RSA encryption.
Every email, SMS, phone call you make are being recorded and all your activity on forums and Social media are scrutinized by them.
They are acctually looking at ways to do this, without having to divulge in courts, how they did it... There are groups of people, who are challenging this in courts.
A Open source program is not a way to do it... they would most likely still work with Hacker Team to create more proprietary methods to do this.
This is public knowledge... {Youtube}
They already have HUGE amounts of information through backdoors in SSL and RSA encryption. Every email, SMS, phone call you make are being recorded and all your activity on forums and Social media are scrutinized by them.
They are acctually looking at ways to do this, without having to divulge in courts, how they did it... There are groups of people, who are challenging this in courts.
A Open source program is not a way to do it... they would most likely still work with Hacker Team to create more proprietary methods to do this.
This is public knowledge... {Youtube}
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