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I came across an article today in Indian news website. Article is fine but one comment to that article is awesome:
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/its-growing-bitcoin-by-bitcoin/article7134704.ece

Let me quote it here :


How and from where such conspiracies come in. Really fascinating :)

Regards

I can't believe someone actually make this type of comment. Well, Satoshi Nakamoto is a common name in Japan..

Gem is :

4.the Central Bankers are reported to be in touch with IBM to misuse the "Block-chain" technology of the BitCoins,to control Global Crypto Currencies.

Seriously ?

Lol...  hindubusinessline.com. 

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Well yeah, that's exactly what's wrong with fiat, but bitcoin cannot be issued and controlled by a central authority so they don't need to worry about this. I doubt bitcoin had anything to do with any governments or corporations and was just invented by a smart guy trying to offer a solution to current fiat cash problems and their payment systems.

The nice thing about Bitcoin is that it gives Darwinism a shot in the arm.

Let them believe what they want.

Well, I'm actually not that surprised… it's just another collection of rumors and Conspiracy theories, you have that with everything there is! If you want to get the peoples' attention the best thing you can do is write something interesting - and it doesn't get more interesting than conspiracy theories, does it?

At least the guy is trying to be imaginative with a twist to make it sound interesting. If we look at it overall maybe that is what we need, some publicity to get the attention and I don't see anything bad coming from it. It's the attention that generate interest and it's the same thing that celebrities nowadays did in order to stay popular in the industry.

Hope it's true lol, if bitcoin is made by global superpowers to be used as a global currency than we all will be rich motherfuckers.

Wow, that's the first I've heard of that.  Bitcoin the brainchild of these companies:

Samsung
Toshiba
Nakamichi
Motorola

Bullshit source and article, but man, A for effort and creativity.  You couldn't spin a yarn like this in your dreams!   8)

This type of theorising has only just begun. If it really goes places lord knows what people will be coming out with.

It'll be fascinating to what proportion of people eventually regard it as good or evil. Lots of ammo for either side.

Writers get paid by amounts of traffic comming to a website, that guy is just throwing in your average buzzword to make a clickbait article and get tonts of visits. Lying and half truths sells unfortunately.

It seems it is very popular to write in a negative tone, as negative news is faster and easier to sell than positive.
The vast majority of these authors do not even understand the concept of virtual currency and Bitcoin, nor bother to investigate this area.
On the internet now all write about everything, and there are very few serious and professional journalism.
Banks and traditional financial institutions doesn't like us, and they will do everything in their power to stop us.

Conspiracy stories are always funny to read, shape shifters, ET, time travellers and the list goes on, beginning from boogeyman in childhood days, and all the weird conspiracies that mind could perceive, which sounds a bit delusional to many, nonetheless funny to read.

Instead of writing such article, they could do some research on the benefits of Bitcoin and rather write an article which will be more useful to many people.

bitcoin conspiracies are always.....interesting to say the least

I like this conspiracy theory too.
But this is basically how media behaves to Bitcoin. I honestly cant see any really good and realistic news about bitcoin in mainstream media and even most of the time at technological sites.(child porn, money laundering, illegal drugs sale etc.)

But this is -at least- a creative one 8)

Yeah but this is probably really only written to attract more readers and get your story shared by as many people as possible. People love conspiracy theories, it's true. And there are always some people who are actually going to believe them!

At the end of the article, it is written...


From a Google search, it seems this is nihilent.com. So, this newspaper got an article from someone at Nihilent for free and published it without any scrutiny.

Perhaps they are reading BTT. I've seen a lot of even more wild conspiracy theories here. You can also find a big bunch of such stuff on Reddit.

I read that exact description of Bitcoin a while ago, they just copied it.

I see random articles on bitcoin poping up on mainstream media lately, making random claims, such as "it's money created on the internet", like they don't know there is a limited supply or something.

conspiracy? someone is spreading fud intentionally, to maintain the price low and buy cheap, maybe?

This is total FUD... people make up conspiracy theory's when they do not have any facts.

If you look at this in this way : A group of companies or a government wanting control, would not create something in Open source.

1. It gives them less control. {People can actually change the code or accept a totally new version}
2. It's too transparent. { They would need to hide backdoors etc... and Open Source does not provide for that }
3. It must be proprietary and they should be the only entity calling the shots.

My guess... It was a small group of programmers {no more than 3} who got together on online forums and chat rooms and they created it from there. They got spooked, when it took off, and also when Gavin went to the authorities.

Large organizations cannot keep secrets.. there are too many holes.

Really?

https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=7lg7VcHwDIjYU5OugsAN#q=Satoshi+Nakamoto (https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=7lg7VcHwDIjYU5OugsAN#q=Satoshi+Nakamoto)

Tell me how many Satoshis you can find.....

Funny story! I think no ppl gonna believe it!

Seems like Bitcoin is making it to papers across the world.
Soon, they will figure out what Bitcoin really is.  :)

This kind of publicity is certainly not going to help the new users who look up to this kind of false information. Misinformation could lead to the next GOX incident.

A spanish friend told me that a politician in his country said that the money is created indefinitelly and unregulated, as if there is a random group of people doing QE with Bitcoins. They just don't get it.

I did this same search around 2 years ago and our Satoshi wasn't the only one listed. Perhaps all the hype around Bitcoin and the newseek article have affected the search rankings. A similar search on Facebook turns up quite a lot of results.

Bitcoin is a confusing concept for many people which leads to misinformation. I even thought I understood it for a while when I didnt, and undoubtedly I spread some misinformation...

I don't believe that. This is like a funny story and misinformation.

Funny how this kind of information about the origins of the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto still cracks me up. :) The names could perfectly fit, but it is very contradicting if those powers really want authority and control because firstly, why would they leave it as an open-source project if they want total control? Like seriously, if someone wants total control, he/she would definitely leave the source among his/her inner circles only and not for the public to view.

Yeah they could have kept it to themselves but that's just about it.
It would have been only themselves because nobody would trust it.
Hence the need for open source  ;)

I think we need to weave "time travelers" into the narrative. That's another funny internet phenomena. Maybe we can't find Satoshi because he has not been born yet!!!!!! Or he was a mathematically gifted daimyo in feudal Japan!!!

I thought everyone already knew that Satoshi is actually Gavin's transgender alterego. :-*

I think both Satoshi and Nakamoto are common names in Japan. But you may find more hits under "Sato", a short version. I spent time in 08-09 in Japan and learned a bit about the language. I may be wrong, but let me take a stab at this name.

聡 中本
The first name "聡" means something like wisdom. Like the word Sophia in Greek. The surname "中本" is made from two characters. The first one is ment to show a line going inside of a mouth. It is used to imply "inside of". The second character is a tree that has it's roots emphasized. It implies roots or the origin of something. It is also in the word for Japan (日本). See it at the end? Here it is combined with the character for the sun. So Japan means "the origin of the Sun", or the land of the rising sun.
So Satoshi Nakamoto could be interpreted to mean "Wisdom from within the roots" or maybe "wisdom originating from within". Its difficult because, unlike alphabetical languages, one must glean the meaning from what is implied rather than spelled out.

I dunno why people are so hell bent on proving Bitcoin as a fraudulent currency and supply derogatory misinformation about it. This kind of negative publicity shouldn't be created without hard evidences and proper knowledge about cryptocurrencies... These kind of reports claiming Bitcoin is created to sabotage other global currencies by popular sources of media only calls for their criticism and boycott.

New users and people need to be taught about the meaning, use and benefits of Bitcoin instead of making false allegations as to who created it and why...

well i believe that many of us have their own opinion and we should respect what we believe in

only if those opinions are based on some well established or fundamental data and facts which make them believable... for example people may believe in Gods but thinking that bitcoin or Satoshi Nakamoto is an anagram used by CIA is just off limits...
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Some people are even taking a discussion board post starting with "what do you guys think of this?" as some major announcement.