It's sort of a stretch, but nobody knows who Satoshi is and many of the major players are American. The Bitcoin Foundation is American, the first user[1] is American, the predecessor to Bitcoin was developed by an American[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo

For this sort of distributed project, it's mostly inept to attempt to nationalize any claim to innovation anyway. Not that it will stop countries from doing it, but it's all rather silly.

I can see how that's confusing. I was thinking in broader terms of the private sector with that one. Although there is American innovation happening there, it's certainly not the only place.