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Re:Debunking “America has become so anti-innovation – it's e... by burkaman on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:13AM (#14375807)
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

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Re:Debunking “America has become so anti-innovation – it's e... by ska on Friday May 19, 2017 @11:06AM (#14376381)
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.
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