Heh - I've just been saying in the wall thread that there's enough in that article to fuel the fires for conspiracy theorists.
At what point does conspiracy theory become more like common sense and the orthodox accepted version of events sound like bullshit?
i.e. Who is more likely to have created Bitcoin.
A team of high salaried life long committed cryptology professionals, pooled together under one roof with access to, for all intents and purposes, unlimited resources?
A lone hacker geek sitting in some Japanese attic with his Manga collection?
Wouldn't the NSA prefer a more easily controlled centralized crypto currency? I would see them be behind Ripple more than behind Bitcoin. Or Ethereum, which will probably become the next target for conspiracy theorists if that breaks through. Anyway I think it's too easy to create a conspiracy theory about everything that becomes big.