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0 pointsnhaehnle12y ago0 comments

What is your story for the thought processes/internal processes at NSA that would have led to the creation of Bitcoin by them? I'm genuinely curious because it seems pretty out of character for an organization whose task is to protect the established elite to go out of their way to create something extremely creative that could endanger the established elite.

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saraid21612y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6206086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6804870

The plausibility depends a lot on the competence you anticipate from such processes. But such contradicting signals of competence are pretty typical of large organizations, especially ones that are silo-ed to some degree.

Crito12y ago

Perhaps *"TLAs got tired of smuggling cocaine for beer money, and wanted something a bit less hazardous/risky."

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