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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2

This hash function was made by the NSA

how did you come to that conclusion? maybe NSA created the technology that eventually led to BTC's inception, but that doesn't mean they created it.

TOR was created by the U.S. government.. so would you say the U.S. government created the .onion websites (such as SR and whatever other illegal websites there are).

NSA made the series of SHA algorithms, and Bitcoin uses SHA-256 but by no means did the NSA create Bitcoin.

That's like saying the guy that created a basketball hoop created the NBA.

Turing made the NSA. He even looks like one.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRmVpsMkld5UjNAWJQphVFLc0i3OjzQuKLGYy20K2xNtBuWtIu_

Congrats on this amazing discovery

There is actually a credible theory and some evidence that NSA researchers were the likely creators of BitCON.

But I can't find the thread readily.

Obviously the OP is not evidence.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=250060.0

Bram Cohen = created BitTorrent, wonder if his friends made BitCoin

So let me get this straight.

The NSA created a revolutionary disruptive technology that is likely to fundamentally threaten the power of the very entities that they are in the business of protecting?

So far it seems to be not threatening at all and going according to NWO plans very well:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=338975.msg3636026#msg3636026

So , ....... all things that use sha-2 are made by NSA?

It could be a disgruntled former employee  ;)

Satoshi Nakamoto is an anagram for

I AM NSA TOOK OATHS

Does it even matter if they did?  ::)

yes

American self defense industries were involved in creating a lot of things we use today.

The NSA standardized it and guided it's creation but did not invent the concept of it.  There were other (less secure) ways of doing this before SHA-2 not created by the NSA. 

How to Make a Mint:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm

1996 article by the NSA Cryptology Division

Gee really, why?

Kindly thanks for sharing this. :)

Here's what I think... BitCoin was made by the NSA to crack codes.

All of the private keys that were easy have already been cracked.  Now we are cracking harder ones, and thus they are becoming more valuable.

It is a free market solution to help them snoop on tougher and tougher encrypted things.

Of course, I could be wrong, or it could just be the paint thinner talking.  But wouldn't that be awesome?

Similar ideas have been proposed before.

If anyone saw the show Stargate Universe, remember they used crowd-sourced brainpower to solve algorithms. Same idea.

Stargate Universe?  Really?

wow you must have gotten the brand name paint thinner.  I've just been drinking this home depot brand bullshit.

Yes, that's it, pointing to a storyline which used crowd-sourced crypto and brainpower to provide solutions is really out there.

No bottom shelf thinner here my boy, just top shelf.

::)

It could be easily true.All you need to control people is to make them believe that they are safe.

At the time of this article all of these concepts were already well known outside of the intelligence community, this is not some relevatory smoking gun.

There is no mention of any technological concepts in the article that were not already obvious in 1996 and there is not even a trace of the technological innovation that Bitcoin introduced to this conceptual framework (the blockchain and proof-of-work).

This entire premise is based on such an absurd misunderstanding of mining that I'd never imagined was even possible.

I find your lack of faith disturbing, Captain Needa.

It was just a little too much nerd even for me.  I mean, MacGuyver stargate, fine, but Stargate UNIVERSE?

No. The NSA has not created bitcoin.

Nice image of a Rainbow Table! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table :P

Bitcoin founders did meet the NSA (I'm pretty sure they said it in a YouTube video) and the NSA does fund startups.

I suspect $atoshi's will be the new world order dollars.

Oh great so now they are watching my coins.

Miners only hash. Hashing is useless to "crack private keys". Ignorance is bliss, I suppose. ::)


And that's all the evidence you'll ever need and get...

This is the Internet. We pioneer new lows for humanity every day.

If the NSA created it, it is likely because it puts all transactions on the public ledger so everything can be tracked and moves the world towards electronic money where the powers-that-be can deduct taxes at-will.

You can read more about this plan from Larry Summers and Paul Krugman here (even Bernanke is supporting this plan in comments yesterday):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=323988.msg3626642#msg3626642

http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/11/19/congressional-hearings-on-bitcoin/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=331325.msg3632396#msg3632396

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3041.msg3631376#msg3631376

Note Bitcoin can be taken over by the government quite easily in numerous different ways. You can review my past week of posts to find out how, e.g. Transactions Withholding Attack, etc...

I've considered that also, infact I think I'd favor them if I was had to pick "who dun it" (I'm refering to the cypherpunks, as believe he was one?).