A popular crypto enthusiast has attempted to justify the controversial theory that the US National Security Agency (NSA) played a crucial role in the creation of the first cryptocurrency.
In the years since the creation of Bitcoin, the crypto community has had no shortage of wild speculations and conspiracy theories about how, by whom and why BTC was created.
There is a version that Bitcoin was invented by the Chinese Communist Party, presumably for the sake of world domination. Others argued that it was the work of good Samaritans who wanted to help society develop. Still others were convinced that the tracks led to the CIA, and the pseudonym of the creator of the military-technical cooperation, Satoshi Nakamoto, could be interpreted as an abbreviation for the main US spy agency - CIA. Since in Japanese “nakamoto” corresponds to “central”, and the name “satoshi” means “intelligent”.
There is another fairly stable group in the Bitcoin ecosystem, to which Nic Carter considers himself. Its representatives claim that Satoshi Nakamoto was an NSA employee. And one of the most secretive American intelligence collection agencies took an active part in the creation of the first cryptocurrency.
Nick Carter confirms the assumption that the SHA-256 secure hashing algorithm, which is used to obtain transaction IDs, block hashes, addresses and Merkle trees, was created by Glenn M. Lilly. Mathematician Glenn Lilly developed the algorithm under the guidance of the NSA and published it in 2001. Lilly later took a post in the NSA's Mathematical Research Division.
Nick Carter called his new statement the “Bitcoin lab leak hypothesis.” He believes that the Bitcoin blockchain was originally a closed internal research project of the NSA, a new “monetary weapon” to collect information about the enemy and undermine the economic foundations of third countries.
Matthew Pines, director of exploration for Krebs Stamos, echoes Carter's sentiments. A cryptography analyst believes that the creation of the Bitcoin blockchain may be the result of collaboration between NSA cryptography experts and cypherpunk enthusiasts. During the research, a communication failure occurred and an anonymous developer inadvertently leaked proprietary information. Therefore, the project became public knowledge.
The NSA was one of the first organizations to describe a system similar to Bitcoin, in a 1996 paper entitled “How to Create a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Money.” In the article, the authors proposed the existence of a system that uses open-source cryptography to allow users to make anonymous payments without revealing their identity.
At the beginning of 2023, entrepreneur Craig Wright found himself at the center of a scandal: the UK court did not grant his petition related to the claims of the “self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakomoto” to the copyright of the Bitcoin White Paper. #binance
