What keyword I used to find this post by Vlad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r2T4Ucfsk0&feature=youtu.be&t=585
The crypto rabbit hole gets deeper and deeper.
Enjoy:
PETER THIEL
Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon Musk (seePayPal Mafia) and served as its CEO. He also co-founded Palantir, of which he is chairman. He was the first outside investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, with a 10.2% stake acquired in 2004 for $500,000, and sits on the company's board of directors.
Thiel serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with $700 million in assets under management; a managing partner in Founders Fund, a venture capital fund with $2 billion in assets under management; co-founder and investment committee chair of Mithril Capital Management; and co-founder and chairman of Valar Ventures.
Palantir Technologies
Thiel founded Palantir Technologies funded by the CIA's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel and serves as the company's chairman.
Palantir Technologies, Inc. is a private American software and services company, specializing in data analysis. Founded in 2004, Palantir's original clients were federal agencies of the United States Intelligence Community. It has since expanded its customer base to serve state and local governments, as well as private companies in the financial and healthcare industries.
The company is known for two software projects in particular: Palantir Gotham is used by counter-terrorism analysts at offices in the United States Intelligence Community and United States Department of Defense, fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, and cyber analysts at Information Warfare Monitor (responsible for the GhostNet and the Shadow Network investigation). Palantir Metropolis is used by hedge funds, banks, and financial services firms. (Palantir software is used to tie together a variety data sets from different sources to enable easy searching and analysis of all connected data.)
A document leaked to TechCrunch revealed that Palantir's clients as of 2013 included at least twelve groups within the US government, including the CIA, DHS, NSA, FBI, CDC, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point, the Joint IED-defeat organization and Allies, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Founder's Fund and Bitpay
In May 2013, BitPay announced that they had raised $2 million via Founders Fund. The bitcoin processor stated that at the time they were not looking for investment until later in 2013, but couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with Founders Fund.
NWO and Transhumanism
Thiel is listed as a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.
Thiel wrote, on April 13, 2009, in the Libertarian 'Cato Unbound' blog, “Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
Thiel believes in the importance and desirability of a technological singularity. (i.e. an all-powerful Artificial Intelligence)
SABR
SABR is a New York-based startup that has just raised $1 million to fulfill its stated mission “to provide law enforcement with a view beneath the surface of multiple blockchains. SABR aims to ensure that bitcoin and other digital currencies are not utilized for illicit purposes.”
SABR has described itself as a “Palantir” for the blockchain
SABR is a tool law enforcement agencies can use to not only know where bitcoins are being spent, but also keep tabs on who’s party to the transaction.
The company says that it’s able to track this information through its “patented technology, access to proprietary data, and also through its participation in the network.”
Conclusion: Just like I've been saying, Bitcoin has been owned by the elite for a long time. $10,000 will be considered a deep discount by next year.
In re http://www.coindesk.com/startup-sabr-io-could-have-caught-silk-road-founder-in-days/
I know as a fact that the FBI started using SABR, no longer requiring the assistance of those who did blockchain forensics by hand.
Don't ask me how I know, but I also know as a fact that 99% of bitcoin wallet addresses created can easily be attached to an IP address when it was created whether Tor is used or not. Sure, you can create 100 new addresses on an isolated computer, but they do you no good till you connect the computer to the Internet, and that's where they get you. There is only one way to date to get around this issue that's close to 95% reliable, but I'm sworn by an NDA to not reveal it, pretty sure that it's okay for me to mention it which I just did. If not, oops!
This is all I'm saying: Robert Mercer.