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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: SHA-256 is designed by the NSA - do they have a backdoor?
by
TippingPoint
on 10/09/2013, 17:46:44 UTC
By the way: What might have been the reason that Mr. Nakamoto decided to use an NSA algorithm (SHA-256) for Bitcoin?

There are more than a few hints that Mr Nakamoto himself (themselves) may be linked to NSA. just saying...

A cite?  The only comments I remember is when Gavin went to CIA for a presentation on Bitcoin, Satoshi wasn't interested.

This is quoted from the defunct Bruce Wagner Bitcoin podcast:

Bruce Wagner : When was the last time you chatted to satoshi
Gavin Andresen: Um... I haven't had email from satoshi in a couple months actually. The last email I sent him I actually told him I was going to talk at the CIA. So it's possible , that.... that may have um had something to with his deciding



Link to source/timestamp?

I'd love to hear this part, but not enough to listen through Bruce Wagner's podcast.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/onlyonetv.com-bitcoin-show/id464967190

It should be around 17:53. First episode.