I think it was a working team within NSA. I have not seen any evidence it was an NSA project.
Where is this secret"Operation Satoshi" document? And when would Snowden have had time to release this in the last 2 days or so?
Can someone fill me in?
The Sharpened Sticks is a satirical website, check out their "about" page:
http://www.sharpenedsticks.com/about-sharpened-sticks/When you come to the 2
nd-3
rd sentence, there's no doubt it's a pure fun:
...notification to US Embassy personnel in Japan about the timing of war games in the Pacific region. The memo, which provides details of Operation Satoshi...But I like jokes like this one... :-)
And the last sentence has a philosophical charge in it:
Instead of believing in the full faith and credit of the US government, or the collective strength of the European Union, Bitcoin users believe in nothing, and that belief remains unshakable.