Castle Island Ventures partner Nic Carter has again added his weight to the theory that Bitcoin was a result of a “lab leak” by the NSA.
screenshots of a 1996 paper titled: “How to make a mint: The cryptography of anonymous electronic cash.”
The paper is one of the first known discussions of a Bitcoin-like system, which proposes using public-key cryptography to allow users to make anonymous payments without revealing their identity. The footer notes show the research paper was “prepared by NSA employees.” Sources included cryptography expert Tatsuaki Okamoto who co-invented the Okamoto–Uchiyama public key cryptosystem in 1998.— a partner of Castle Island Ventures partner doubled down his support for the notion stating “I actually do believe this,” before adding:
“I call it the Bitcoin lab leak hypothesis. I think it was a shuttered internal R&D project which one researcher thought was too good to lay fallow on the shelf and chose to secretly release.”back in 2020: “If Bitcoin was written by NSA cryptographers as a monetary bioweapon, if you will, and the code escaped those sensitive confines... does that make it a virus... that escaped from a lab?”: “The only decent thing the NSA ever did from the world was let Bitcoin leak from the lab.
I actually do believe this. I call it the bitcoin lab leak hypothesis. I think it was a shuttered internal R&D project which one researcher thought was too good to lay fallow on the shelf and chose to secretly release
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