Did anyone see this story? http://www.sharpenedsticks.com/2013/07/03/bitcoin-was-created-by-the-nsa-the-latest-shocking-snowden-revelation/

There was a few other sites a while back that had that story. Seriously wouldn't surprise me if it was created by them. There are also other security related articles I've seen explaining that the encryption used isn't actually as strong as once thought, something to do with an eliptical cipher or something of that nature.

You can't help but wonder what else all this math is being used for besides creating "coins" Maybe its their way of creating the biggest distributed computing system in existence. And after the creation of scrypt mining now there's two different algorithms for them to get work done with.

For the record I really hope Snowden is wrong on this, but so far he's seemed pretty credible. Also if it was created by the NSA or some other gov agency, then it's all the more reason that bitcoin will continue to live, because they'll try to keep it alive one way or another.