2 days agoDid the CIA create Bitcoin? Agency director says it's “working hard on cryptovaluta”
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)There's a conspiracy theory that persists for a long time among a small number of cryptovalutists that the anonymous inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakatomo, was part of the CIA or any other three-letter agency. And this theory has just been reinforced by CIA director William Burns, who said [...]
And this theory has just been reinforced by CIA director William Burns [Kosovo's friend], who said on Monday that the intelligence agency had “a number of projects focused on cryptovaluta”.
Burns made these comments in the margins of a Wall Street Journal summit.
After discussing everything that began with the possible Russian invasion of Ukraine to spatial challenges, someone in the audience asked him if the CIA was in charge of cryptova.
And that's what Burns said:
There's something I inherited. My predecessors have initiated this, have set in motion a number of projects focused on cryptovatluts to try to see the consequences of the second and third order, and also to help our colleagues in other parts of the American government offer solid intelligence in what we were seeing. ”
This is hardly surprising to consider the focus being given to the issue from every corner of the government. /Periscope
