Big Questions: Did the NSA create Bitcoin?

Cointelegraph

Published Aug 15, 2023 09:30AM ET

Updated Aug 15, 2023 09:40AM ET

Over the 15 years since Bitcoin was created, there has been no shortage of crazy conspiracy theories about how it was made and where it came from.

Some believe Bitcoin was the work of a bunch of engineers in the Chinese Communist Party presumably for world domination; others claim Bitcoin is the work of benevolent aliens to help humans evolve.

But one theory with circumstantial evidence supporting it has persisted over the years and it involves one of Americas most secretive intelligence-gathering agencies.

The NSAs 1996 plan to create anonymous electronic cash. (archive.org)
Satoshi Nakamoto means central intelligence in Japanese. Really. Look it up. (Ancestry.com)
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