Reading some articles from the time before Biden became US president, I found an interesting piece of information about how his actions from the early 1990s inspired Phil Zimmerman to do what was called
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). Biden was then chairman of the Judiciary Committee and passed two bills (the Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act and the Violent Crime Control Act.)
One of the collaborators in the development of PGP was also Hall Finey, who is known to have been the first collaborator of Satoshi Nakamoto and who is remembered as the one who received the first BTC transaction right from Satoshi.
While some may say that all these things are not related, I believe that Satoshi worked on his project for a very long time before he made it public, and that he may also have been influenced by the decisions made by Biden in the past.
Indeed, it was in the 1990s when Biden accidentally inspired Phil Zimmerman to create Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). At the time, Biden was chairman of the Judiciary Committee and introduced two bills with strong anti-encryption language: the Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act and the Violent Crime Control Act... In other words, Moore said, “Biden sponsored a bill that scared Paul Zimmerman so much that he finally finished the code for PGP, eventually helping Bitcoin to be born.”
Yet, perhaps the most important variable is Joe Biden himself. Historically, he has been against encryption, introducing two bills with strong anti-encryption language while he was in the Senate. In fact, it was his two bills that inspired Hal Finney to work on PGP encryption — as well as perhaps, down the road, bitcoin itself.
