Bitcoin was made by CIA or NSA

[sublime5447]

Even if it's true so what? I don't feel aggrieved if it’s a fact, we cannot deny that behind the big creation there is a role of government there, whether they are the one who started it or take it over because they have possible access and resources. I don't think this should be a long debate, yet Satoshi himself said that he didn’t want his privacy to be revealed and we shoauld respect it.

[ostrogoto2012]

Surely it was not Satoshy nakamoto, this is a fictitious name to cover someone or a state that wanted to create the blockchain to move big money to fight the banks! Is part of this financial war  today, planned many years ago.

[Yara1]

I don't believe this because if you take your time to study the bitcoin white paper carefully you will understand that bitcoin is never developed as an experimental tool but a full currency that is Design to survive independently of any organization or government.

[MAJICOIN]

I think it is not made by any of the CIA or NSA it is designed by a simple person with an idea to facilitate the online business and trade of goods and services across the world with out any third party so CIA and NSA do not need any kind of currency and crypto is using by individuals for trade while if we think that it is using by CIA it will not fact because they can use other fiat money as well and they have some other objectives not to involve in crypto but i know one thing that crypto is the future currency.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I firmly believe that his guy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons - created Bitcoin. He once worked for the NSA.

[Slow death]

Among all the Satoshi Nakamoto's identity theories, this is what i believe the most: https://bitcoinist.com/kaspersky-labs-co-founder-says-bitcoin-created-american-intelligence-agencies/

The US government is constantly struggling against terrorism, why the hell would they try to create a pseudo-anonymous currency that could make life easier for terrorists? that does not make any sense, we have to forget these theories

That's why countries like Russia and China banned bitcoin, while USA is allowing it to prosper unhindered.

Russia and China are shady governments that want to have 100% control over their people, so they do not like bitcoin because of the decentralized nature of bitcoin

they may just arrest/blackmail the devteam/distributors of Bitcoin,
and/or block the bootstrap node IPs that the BTC wallets require to join the network when they are launched.

It would be that easy

But they have not done this until nowadays because they do not look bitcoin as a great threat, they know they can by laws favorable to all

[junglist.massive]

Okay once again we are discussing this, satoshi is someone who demands his privacy safe and the right to privacy is guaranteed by legislation, especially US upholds this. As long as Bitcoin remains open-source I still won't be affected by the issue of control and the like because I'm sure the Bitcoin community won't let that happen and if they will close Bitcoin, I think it's a very big step for them to take into account considering the agenda they bring must require Bitcoin to keep running and that closure will destroy the global economy if Bitcoin is big already but the question is "how do they close Bitcoin?"

[Msworld83]

America is a kind of country that has every way in making everything work for them , and secretly do have in-house to work on every thing and see how it can benefit them and if found not useful that is when they war against it or if not working in there way or how they want it . so they always have special people on every technology to know in and out .

[Phinnaeus Gage]

America is a kind of country that has every way in making everything work for them , and secretly do have in-house to work on every thing and see how it can benefit them and if found not useful that is when they war against it or if not working in there way or how they want it . so they always have special people on every technology to know in and out .

Madness! Dude made bank via the grammatically-incorrect word spaghetti above in satisfying his sig campaign commitment.

[minhlee95]

Among all the Satoshi Nakamoto's identity theories, this is what i believe the most: https://bitcoinist.com/kaspersky-labs-co-founder-says-bitcoin-created-american-intelligence-agencies/

https://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2016/05/05/im-starting-think-cia-developed-bitcoin-still-love.html

https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/15/nsa-helped-invent-bitcoin-founder-worlds-second-largest-cryptocurrency-ethereum-claims-7631719/

That's why countries like Russia and China banned bitcoin, while USA is allowing it to prosper unhindered.

After all, if the gov hated bitcoin so much then it was very easy for them to take it down:
they may just arrest/blackmail the devteam/distributors of Bitcoin,
and/or block the bootstrap node IPs that the BTC wallets require to join the network when they are launched.

It would be that easy

If this is true and the government of the States of America is involved in the creation of bitcoins, why do many ICO prohibit their citizens from participating in the sale of tokens, why are regulations from the SEC so much tightened?

[keyscore44]

I think that the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto will never be revealed, so everyone can think of any story and say that his story is true.
Recently, new interesting stories have appeared:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5084077.0

[Bitfling]

Among all the Satoshi Nakamoto's identity theories, this is what i believe the most: https://bitcoinist.com/kaspersky-labs-co-founder-says-bitcoin-created-american-intelligence-agencies/

https://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2016/05/05/im-starting-think-cia-developed-bitcoin-still-love.html

https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/15/nsa-helped-invent-bitcoin-founder-worlds-second-largest-cryptocurrency-ethereum-claims-7631719/

That's why countries like Russia and China banned bitcoin, while USA is allowing it to prosper unhindered.

After all, if the gov hated bitcoin so much then it was very easy for them to take it down:
they may just arrest/blackmail the devteam/distributors of Bitcoin,
and/or block the bootstrap node IPs that the BTC wallets require to join the network when they are launched.

It would be that easy

Its hard to predicting who creating bitcoin because its anonymous. That rumors is just speculation and its not from reputable source. But i think its not matter anymore who creting bitcoin because its already become valueable and shocking the world with the concept

[rosemary4u]

It is amazing how many United States citizens own bitcoin in spite of the many restrictions on its citizens as far as ICO projects are concerned. This is a serious allegations and it needs to be given the necessary considerations that it deserves. There seems to be some valid facts  in the post above.

[changxia]

Yes, I used to think like this. I thought Satoshi Nakamoto is just a code name and it may be CIA or NSA behind it. But I don't think so now, because there is no interest for CIA or NSA created bitcoin.  and they are just intelligence agencies, not good at finance.
And the decentralized mining model of Bitcoin is not suitable for a centralized organization to control it.

[Matthewmorris4]

CIA and NSA are government agencies. Why will they invent a digital cash that will not be controlled by the government?

maybe because the public is free to think wildly about this. Moreover, there is also no detailed evidence that this is made by one of the major agencies. Then why with this bitcoin price fluctuation, the SEC did not freeze the NSA or CIA because they were masterminds behind this?

[Showkat Hossain]

If BTC was made by the CIA but there are some atom of truth that BTC can be a hard work of a professional body.

[Little_king]

May be you just don't have anything to say again, cause even if it was created by them and they are promoting it for all to use then you are in too what are you trying to say here , as I don't understand if we should stop using btc or you are trying to say the create it and same time using style going against it to do what and the Russia and China you made mentioned of are also looking for way to develop their own coin that can be control by them and only trying to have watch over the coin but have no power over it has been their major problem and government is good for nothing but only want to take control of everything.

[Peacemaker1994]

Well it could be true..  But you know how secretive the CIA is well there is no fact just speculation that bitcoin was created by CIA or any other organisation they true fact is bitcoin was created by satoshi nakamoto

[kelz1]

Whoever created satoshi had a lot of skill in cryptography, i wouldn't be surprised if he or they had links to the nsa. However, the organisation would not have done it, it's bad for business

[Dreamace7]

China has not banned bitcoin I must clear that very wrong impression there are just little ban on ico well bitcoin was not created by any nation or institution