Not at all. Just putting it up there so people who think this is a new and innovative idea can be informed. I'm anti-trolling.

This is Sol Adoni:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/727145.0

It's an elaborate troll/FUD campaign by an annoying guy with a ton of sockpuppet accounts and websites.

He's been banned from other forums unrelated to bitcoin for doing similar things with tons of fake accounts.

Also from the whois of ciaproject.org:

Uh, according to my Google-fu... Nakamoto Name MeaningJapanese: ‘central origin’ or ‘(one who lives) in the middle’; found mostly in the Ryukyu islands.


It's a forum...not a democracy. The owner can remove posts as he likes, it's his forum to run the way he wants to.


Yeah only people who have had intelligence training would want to remain anonymous.s


What's their point? I do plenty of business with people I've never met or spoken to on the phone either.


So what exactly are they going to do? Hasn't it already been proven that the algorithm used to create private keys would take billions of years to crack and if they did have a backdoor....


the above contradicts what they just said. Do they mean the NSA had backdoors in the less popular programs. Unclear about this.


Which document was this, I want to read it - anyone got a link?


Maybe in terms of The Bitcoin Foundation but AFAIK the project is still open source, anyone can review it.

 

Project of this scale has to come from the top government department.

Who would care about fast transaction time where most of the world population don't do international trade.

And you probably dont think we landed on the moon... Trust me, this is not a NSA or CIA project...

They have realized the Fed is a blight on the heart of 'Merica but can't undermine the Fed/Goldman/MS troika without spilling the apple-cart. Gotta go stealth-mode. Three cheers for the 3-letter agencies!!

Sounds really stupid. Why would they do this? What would they gain from it? How would they know a crypto currency would get this big?

I believe there is some -- not absolute -- truth to this. What is the primary global economic issue that the Washington consensus was worried about the past two decades? Currency controls! How are these currency controls implemented? By restricting capital flight by forcing businesses to transact in the domestic currency. What does Bitcoin undermine? This very phenomenon. In a nutshell, the neoliberal consensus' view on monetary is very much free market/libertarian oriented. So, does this at least make some sense facially? Sure.

That said, like many projects created by the CIA, this one has taken on a life of its own and now has characteristics wholly independent from its original purpose. The infrastructure that has sprouted up around Bitcoin including the exchanges, blockchain, and the tech savvy user base makes this potential original source largely irrelevant. A good comparison is another CIA project... the internet. The CIA played a hand in it... it was a disruptive technology... it took on a life of its own.

So, I guess if you need a creation myth sort of like a religious zealot then this is a big deal. If you don't need a creation myth then this is a non-story. Bitcoin is exactly the same as it was two minutes ago. The NSA might be tracking transactions (say for terrorist purposes), but I doubt they give a hell otherwise (even for certain illicit purposes... see how long the Silkroad game carried on). Moreover, the NSA is not going to steal or destroy all of your coins because they'd be incurring the wrath of a million hackers. It's just a non-story to me.

Why stupid? Tor was also founded by DARPA and the Navy. Geez even the internet was created under the original name ARPANET by the department of defense.

All the trouble the US goes though to get the SWIFT-treaty with the EU, and the block chain?
You get handed all transactions ever done on a silver platter. Sure, its pseudonymous. Unless you have access to the records of all exchanges, and well, those kinds anti-laundering regulations are already in effect. Would be amusing to know who actually runs those mixing pools. But basicly the block chain is pretty much a wet dream for any surveilance state.

Market cap has grown by  ~$60 per dollar invested in exchanges, in other words probably not more than like $200M has ever flown into bitcoin. Even if all of that had come from the fed it would have been peanuts. And well, the NSA has been working on the concept for a long time after all.