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Bitcoin proponent Nick Carter has reiterated his support for the theory that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was involved in the creation of Bitcoin (BTC). On September 15, Iris Energy co-founder Daniel Roberts apparently revisited this decade-old theory by posting screenshots of a 1996 article titled " How to Create a Coin: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash." This article is one of the first known discussions of a Bitcoin-like system that suggests using public-key cryptography for anonymous payments without revealing your identity. The footnotes indicate that the study was prepared by NSA employees.
On September 21, Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures, stated: "I call it the' Bitcoin leak hypothesis from the lab.' I think it was a closed internal research project that one researcher thought was too good to put on the shelf and decided to secretly release it into the wild."
Carter actually stuck to this theory for several years, suggesting back in 2020: "If Bitcoin was written by NSA cryptographers as a monetary bioweapon and the code went beyond this sensitive framework... does that make it a virus... ...the one who escaped from the lab?
However, Carter also clarified that this does not mean that the US government secretly controls all Bitcoin-another theory that is often associated with the theory of the connection between Bitcoin and the NSA. In his opinion, the researcher released the technology into the wild without the permission of the NSA and decided to keep the coins to preserve his anonymity.
Meanwhile, some users drew attention to one of the cryptographic scientists, Tatsuaki Okamoto, mentioned in a 1996 article, suggesting that the name sounds very similar to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of the creator of Bitcoin.
Matthew Pines, director of intelligence at cybersecurity firm Krebs Stamos, believes that bitcoin was most likely "the interaction of cryptographers from the NSA and cyberpunk enthusiasts." He suggests that Satoshi (or at least his closest intellectual associates) had close ties to working for the NSA, but he doesn't think Bitcoin itself or its white paper was approved by the intelligence agencies.
Former Goldman Sachs executive Raul Pal has previously expressed his own theory, claiming that Bitcoin was invented by the US and UK governments.
In August, Cointelegraph investigated the theory and interviewed former NSA cryptanalyst Jeff Meng, who said it was unlikely that the NSA could have created Bitcoin as a means of gathering intelligence about its enemies. However, Meng concluded that we are unlikely to learn the true story of the world's most popular digital asset in the coming years.
Bitcoin proponent Nick Carter has reiterated his support for the theory that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was involved in the creation of Bitcoin (BTC). On September 15, Iris Energy co-founder Daniel Roberts apparently revisited this decade-old theory by posting screenshots of a 1996 article titled " How to Create a Coin: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash." This article is one of the first known discussions of a Bitcoin-like system that suggests using public-key cryptography for anonymous payments without revealing your identity. The footnotes indicate that the study was prepared by NSA employees.
On September 21, Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures, stated: "I call it the' Bitcoin leak hypothesis from the lab.' I think it was a closed internal research project that one researcher thought was too good to put on the shelf and decided to secretly release it into the wild."
Carter actually stuck to this theory for several years, suggesting back in 2020: "If Bitcoin was written by NSA cryptographers as a monetary bioweapon and the code went beyond this sensitive framework... does that make it a virus... ...the one who escaped from the lab?
However, Carter also clarified that this does not mean that the US government secretly controls all Bitcoin-another theory that is often associated with the theory of the connection between Bitcoin and the NSA. In his opinion, the researcher released the technology into the wild without the permission of the NSA and decided to keep the coins to preserve his anonymity.
Meanwhile, some users drew attention to one of the cryptographic scientists, Tatsuaki Okamoto, mentioned in a 1996 article, suggesting that the name sounds very similar to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of the creator of Bitcoin.
Matthew Pines, director of intelligence at cybersecurity firm Krebs Stamos, believes that bitcoin was most likely "the interaction of cryptographers from the NSA and cyberpunk enthusiasts." He suggests that Satoshi (or at least his closest intellectual associates) had close ties to working for the NSA, but he doesn't think Bitcoin itself or its white paper was approved by the intelligence agencies.
Former Goldman Sachs executive Raul Pal has previously expressed his own theory, claiming that Bitcoin was invented by the US and UK governments.
In August, Cointelegraph investigated the theory and interviewed former NSA cryptanalyst Jeff Meng, who said it was unlikely that the NSA could have created Bitcoin as a means of gathering intelligence about its enemies. However, Meng concluded that we are unlikely to learn the true story of the world's most popular digital asset in the coming years.
