Bitcoin CIA theory goes mainstream

The theory that Bitcoin is not a creation of the anonymous coder Satoshi Nakamoto, but an invention of the American secret services (such as the CIA and the NSA) is gaining traction. This week the theory made it to the mainstream media for the first time. The renowned ‘The Economist’ published the story as one of its main articles.

Lab leak

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Did Bitcoin leak from an American spy lab? - The Economist https://t.co/1xSZRUNHmN via @GoogleNews

— Gilbert Algordo (@gilbertalgordo) October 5, 2023

The same theory has been circulating about Bitcoin for years. When the ‘Bitcoin Whitepaper’ was found in Apple software in April this year, some thought that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was actually Satoshi Nakamoto, while others were once again talking about the now famous Bitcoin ‘lab leak’ theory.

It states that the secret services in the United States, the CIA and the NSA, are afraid that the federal government will decide at some point to close them down, so they always had to keep a large money machine at hand.

I actually do believe this. I call it the bitcoin lab leak hypothesis. I think it was a shuttered internal R&D project which one researcher thought was too good to lay fallow on the shelf and chose to secretly release https://t.co/qXJkQTciSK

— nic 🌠 carter (@nic__carter) September 21, 2023

So that’s why they developed Bitcoin and kept the first 1.1 million Bitcoins for themselves. If it is true, the CIA or NSA will immediately be catapulted into the top 20 richest people in the world once they claim ownership of those Bitcoins.

The theory has been maturing online for years on places like Reddit and 4Chan, but this is about the first time it has made it to mainstream media.