Somebody at the 3 letters must have been called out Bitcoin as a national security threat.
This sort of explanation fails occams' razor. Not as badly as some things that many people believe, but you don't need to go there. All sorts of perfectly ordinary explanations work fine.
If you believe the dates provided by hearn. I saw no indication of that until many years after its claimed date.
I just noticed a small datum to add to the balance of probabilities, with an eye toward some oddly effective heuristic about happenstance and coincidence.
From: Satoshi Nakamoto <
satoshin@gmx.com>
Date: Sat,
Apr 23, 2011 at 3:40 PM
To: Mike Hearn <
mike@plan99.net>
[...]
I've moved on to other things. It's
[Bitcoin is] in good hands with Gavin and everyone.
So, this unauthenticated e-mail was allegedly sent by Satoshi to Mike Mr Surveillance & Taint Hearn four days before Gavin Andresen publicly announced his visit to the CIA:
Subject: Gavin will visit the CIA
I want to get this out in the open because it is the kind of thing that will generate conspiracy theories: I'm going to give a presentation about Bitcoin at CIA headquarters in June at an emerging technologies conference for the US intelligence community.
If Satoshi actually sent that e-mail, then its timing would raise the question of whether he knew about Gavins upcoming announcement. (I would presume not; but that would mean considerable active deception by Gavin.) Whereas if Satoshi did not send that e-mail, then the timing would be an awfully big coincidence if it were produced on its alleged dateand an even bigger coincidence, if Hearn cooked it up later and backdated it.
I think thats interesting for those delving into the details and potential whyshowever, this thread is more about the what. I request that the discussion be kept more focused there.