Stumbled across this old VB post where he makes a hypothesis of Bitcoin having possibly been made, or supported by, the NSA.
Thoughts?
This is probably one of the major reasons Satoshi never let anyone know who he was. I wouldn't be surprised if he is actually an American working for the NSA specializing in cryptography. Then he got sick of the government's monetary polices and decided to create bitcoin.
Or the NSA itself decided to create Bitcoin. Things as big as megacorps and governments work against themselves all the time, I wouldn't be too surprised if the NSA has some part in at least supporting it.