Quote from: fikrett on Today at 09:05:57 AM

Quote from: legiteum on Today at 02:01:38 AM

If my baseless conspiracy theory is true, and Bitcoin was invented at the CIA as a honey pot, then it sure would hit Bitcoin where it hurts

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Damn, never thought about that one Roll Eyes

Bring the popcorn, legiteum is onto something! Grin

But I still don't think we will have something worth noting at the end of this story, though.

Like a lot of good baseless conspiracy theories, there is a good bit of internal logical consistency with this theory. Besides Satoshi being some person who actually physically died (or was incarcerated), there's no other way to explain how some living person would sit on $60 billion without spending it. But the US government could do this, and keeping the secret would be worth it (because $60B is peanuts for the US gov).

And the way honey pots work, they would lose their leverage over it if they revealed what they did. And then imagine what they would have thought when they saw Bitcoin becoming huge and spawning a new industry: "oops"

. They would never ever want to reveal what they had done because it would be very embarrassing--and it would reveal "sources and methods" e.g. the very idea they would do something like this would now be out there.