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For the sake of conversation,
if you think it was created as a type of US/UK Black Project, PsyOps, IntelOps, or other,
what do you think the true purpose of Bitcoin/bitcoin is?
Some speculate that NSA or whatever spy agency was involved with bitcoin, just to spy on ppl. Bitcoin is not anonymous, its public ledger could make it easy for some organization with resources of NSA to tracks everyone transactions. Its easier than going to each single bank on the word asking for transaction information. With bitcoin, everything is available in the blockchain.
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No one so far supporting the OPs argument has given a valid reason or the true intent of bitcoin, under the OPs assumption.
For the NSA to use this as a tool for watching certain people and their money move is fine. Any agency can do that now.
But the problem is that the surveillance is limited to only the current user base.
So why release it to watch a few people, buying and trading here and there?
In a few years, the Devs could potentially change Bitcoin so that txs are obfuscated and anonymous.
That would entirely destroy this theory of gov creation for surveillance or control.
And because of the foregoing, I'm going to say it is just an "experiment in economics for now and for reason".