Quote from: thejaytiesto on January 30, 2016, 04:19:43 PM

Quote from: owm123 on January 30, 2016, 07:25:03 AM

Quote from: AgentofCoin on January 30, 2016, 03:01:35 AM

Quote from: abs350 on January 30, 2016, 02:29:44 AM

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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.

Tor was developed originally by United States Naval Research Laboratory, so why Bitcoin could not be similar project. There are already many speculations about NSA and bItcoin, e.g.:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bitcoin-suspected-be-nsa-cia-project-1460439

https://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/is-the-national-security-agency-behind-bitcoin/

Are you kidding me? How can they even "hack Bitcoin transactions"? The only way they could do this is if SHA2 had some sort of backdoor and even then I doubt it would be that easy. Also if SHA2 had a backdoor (I dont understand how something open source can have a backdoor?) it would end up leaking and it would be a disaster for global economy since most of the stuff is encrypted with that algorithm.

Isn't Bitcoin's algorithm SHA-256 instead of SHA-2 ? Maybe is it the same thing, or at least the same "protocol" ?