A fresh round of speculation about Bitcoin’s origins erupted this week after Cornell professor Dave Collum told Tucker Carlson that “the first paper on crypto was written by three NSA guys,” advancing a theory that US intelligence seeded BTC to acclimate the public to a future of central bank digital currencies. “I’d release the crypto. I’d have guys pumping it… let them debug the networks… and then I’d say, ‘Okay, it was fun. We’ll take it from here,’” Collum argued , suggesting that elites would never permit an uncontrolled monetary network to survive.

Was Bitcoin Created By The NSA?

Swan Bitcoin’s daily program No Second Best devoted its August 21 episode to the claim—and to the broader idea that Bitcoin, stablecoins, and US public debt are entangled in ways that conspiracy narrativ

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