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Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by kgwgk on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:36PM (#21275271)
In that spirit, Levine ends his comment as follows: ‘Do you think maybe Satoshi Nakamoto works for the FBI, and invented Bitcoin as a way to get criminals to make a convenient permanent record of their transactions?’
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Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by bhaak on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:12PM (#21275760)
The idea that Satoshi is not one person but a group at the NSA has been going around for a long time.

I don't think it's likely true but it's an entertaining gedanken experiment.

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Re:US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Large... by sorum on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @09:40PM (#21278185)
Now that is a movie script that almost writes itself
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