Quote from: Lauda on February 22, 2016, 07:50:49 PM

Anyone with experience in extended, unconventional conflict should be able to recognize current patterns in the Bitcoin and digital currency space that resemble subversive activity.
Is a game of social engineering being leveled at the Bitcoin community? Based on open source information alone, its conceivable that certain individuals or teams are trying to demoralize and disrupt the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Full article can be found here.

Does any of this seem familiar?

Thank you for posting that.

This is exactly what I see happening.

At least since the great depression, and possibly longer in other countries, there has been an economic elite that controls the flow of money. That control over the flow of money gives them an incredible amount of power.

Bitcoin has a decentralized flow of money, it brings that power back to the people where it belongs.

This is a threat to the economic elite. At first they did not recognize that threat, but now that it is clear Bitcoin is real, they recognize the threat is real. They can't take it down directly, but what they can do is attempt to seize control of the network.

And that is what I believe they are trying to do, using the very social engineering tactics quoted in your original post.