Quote from: moriskarlov on January 20, 2018, 08:07:00 PM

KASPERSKY LABS CO-FOUNDER SAYS BITCOIN CREATED BY AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

In a recent speech, Natalya Kaspersky, the co-founder of Kaspersky Labs, made the claim that Bitcoin was a project by American intelligence agencies.http://bitcoinist.com/kaspersky-labs-co-founder-says-bitcoin-created-american-intelligence-agencies/

Interesting, but not very compelling. If anything, these claims are just a business development move (targeting the Kremlin) after the US government kicked Kaspersky to the curb last year.

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[The technology] is privatized, just like the Internet, GPS and TOR. In fact, it is dollar 2.0. Its rate is controlled by the owners of exchanges,

Not sure how this is an advantage for the US government. Ceding control over the monetary policy to completely private forces seems like a good way to lose authority. People make similar claims about the FED being private, but the US government has no authority to "reign in Bitcoin" like they do the FED.

Quote from: Slow death on January 20, 2018, 09:28:47 PM

Besides why the hell would they bother to create bitcoin something pseudo-anonymous? everyone knows that the US is "fighting" terrorists and terrorists are very dangerous and has a very sophisticated system to communicate and finance their activities, if the US created bitcoin they would be offering a great advantage to the terrorists

That's one of the only aspects that makes sense to me. If anything, Bitcoin users (including criminals) have misunderstood Bitcoin's [lack of] privacy since inception. The whole narrative that "Bitcoin is anonymous" has turned it into a huge honeypot for criminals.