Was Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, a CIA or NSA Agent of the United States?
Well there are some theories and evidence that point to this being the case and true.
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Yeah, I haven't’ covered the NSA and CIA as the ones behind Bitcon’s creation even
though these theories have been around for a long time…but now it’s time to cover
this theory because new evidence is piling up!!
Have you ever heard of the coder and cryptographer Tatsuki Okamoto??
Well he could very well be the person behind Bitcoin’s creation!!
Okamoto, is the creator of a universal eCash in 1995, he holds six key patents regarding
this digital currency he created in 1995.
Here is where it gets spooky.
According to Okamoto, Bitcoin and his ecash are very similar, Both solutions use public
keys as pseudonymous identities in the network and both use private keys to authorize transactions,
The only difference between the two is in Okamoto’s proposal, a trusted third party
verifies the transactions…unlike Bitcoin’s trustlessness which has the Bitcoin miners
and nodes validate transactions.
Okamoto created the world’s first divisible e-cash that had pseudo anonymity built right
into the protocol…it worked based on cryptography and math equations.
The only difference was no blockchain and no miners.
In the conclusion of his E-Cash paper Okamoto said this about what he had built “In this
paper, we have proposed the first untraceable electronic cash system, The customer can subdivide
his cash balances (dollars), into many pieces in any way he pleases until the total value
of all subdivided pieces equals C. A smart card equipped with a Rabiin scheme chip and
the distributed database for a bank to store the h1 and h2 should be implemented efficiently
to realize the universal electronic cash system.
From a theoretical viewpoint, it remains open to construct an unconditionally untraceable
universal electronic cash system”
Okamoto built this…and held the patents on the most workable solution to digital cash
at the time the mid to late 90s.
And his solution got built out by 1998.
E cash was all the rage!
In June of 98, e-cash became available through Credit Suisse in Switzerland, was available
from Deutsche bank in Germany and many other banks and countries adopted this e-cash system..although
this wasn’t deployed by Okamoto, it was deployed by David Chaum..who used public and
private keys like described by Okamoato, but he used Blind Signatures to provide anonymity
to the protocol.
Although David Chaums eCash failed due to centralization…no one was using ecash, They
were just using credit cards to make payments on the platform, which those transaction fees
went to the banks not Digicash.
Digicash went bankrupt the same year they saw the expansion and adoption of ecash, in
1998.
A single company ran the working version of Okamoto’s e-cash he described in 1995.
That was their failure and Okamoto realized this…so he set out to create Bitcoin, a
trustless protocol that didn’t need to rely on a single cenralized entity to RUN and flourish,
The people, the users of the protocol would control it, in a decentralized way through
blockchain technology and proof of work mining!!
It took Okamoto ten 13 years to go from his e-cash paper to the Bitcoin whitepaper released
in 2008...but he did it, anonymously under the name Satoshi Nakamoto….
Why do I think this is a possibility??
Well Okamoto was around major cryptographic financial conferences, discussing ecash while
also patenting technologies around e-cash, all the way up to 2008, the year the Bitcoin
Whitepaper was released.
As we can see from this curriculum of speakers at the “Financial Cryptography and Data
Security 2008 conference he was a speaker in the section anonymity and ecash..giving
a talk on “An Efficient Anonymous Credential System”
Now, was Satoshi worried about being anonymous and privacy?
Of course…even in the Bitcoin Whitepaper, there is a section on privacy that says “The
necessity to announce all transactions publicly precludes this method, but privacy can still
be maintained by breaking the flow of information in another place: by keeping public keys anonymous.
The public can see that someone is sending an amount to someone else, but without information
linking the transaction to anyone.
As an additional firewall, a new key pair should be used for each transaction to keep
them from being linked to a common owner.”
From Tatsuki Okamoto to Satoshi Nakamoto…but remember, I said the NSA or CIA created Bitcoin…how
does Okamoto tie into these guys?
Well suspiciously…one year after he published his ecash paper…in 1996 the NSA released
their own paper on an electronic cash system titled “How to make a mint: The cryptography
of anonymous electronic cash” and in the paper they talk about public key cryptographic
tools that includes key pairs, a la a public key and a secret aka private key”..they
also talk about signatures using these keys, and also secure hashing.
All of which Bitcoin utilizes today…
Guess who prepared this report and document for the NSA??
Well as we can see from original documentation…NSA employees did and they reference and credit
Tatsuki Okamoto.
Obviously Okamoto is tied to the NSA….
If you didn’t know…what makes Bitcoin soooo secure is it’s encryption.
BTC uses the Secure Hash Algorithm 256, or SHA-256 (read as sha), which is used for everything
from deriving transaction IDs and block hashes to addresses and Merkle trees.
Put simply, it’s a mathematical formula that garbles data into a string of seemingly
random text, and it’s why Bitcoin is basically impossible to crack.
Guess who created SHA-256??
The NSA did….
From this wiki on Sha-256 we can see it says “SHA-256 is a patented cryptographic hash
function.
The patent for the SHA-256 algorithm was filed by the NSA on March 5th, 2001, listing Glenn
M. Lilly as the inventor.
The patent was granted and published on December 7th, 2004.”
The NSA created the encryption hash function of Bitcoin in the same decade that Bitcoin
was created…
Then there is this ... .Cointelegraph interviewed a former NSA cryptanalyst, Jeff Mann, and
this is what he had to say regarding the possibility of the NSA creating BTC.
“it’s “feasible” that the NSA could have created Bitcoin as a means to gather
intelligence about its enemies”
Finally we have to think about this fact….the intelligence agencies of the United States
share information and work together.
Well, in 2016 someone decided to investigate this fact.
From this article on the investigation we can see it says “Alexander Muse, a blogger
in entrepreneurship in 2016, however, claimed that the United State’s National Security
Agency (NSA) already has information concerning Nakamoto’s identity.
Daniel Oberhaus, a journalist from Vice’s Motherboard was intrigued to learn more about
Nakamoto’s NSA case and decided to inquire further.
Oberhaus said “I decided to start broad and request all internal emails containing
Satoshi Nakamoto’s name form the FBI and CIA”
The journalist’s request for information on Nakamoto with the FBI remains open.
However, a month after his FOIA request with the CIA, he received a response that his “request
has been rejected.”
The agency stated that they can: “neither confirm nor deny the existence of the requested
documents.”
The CIA is known for providing these responses that avoid releasing any information.
The CIA’s “Glomar response” is clear that even if the NSA knew who Nakamoto is,
they’re not open to sharing that information with the public yet.
Well viewers, what do you think?
Did the NSA create Bitcoin through Okamoto and their creation of SHA-256?
Or maybe Bitcoin was a leak from the NSA lab??
Or maybe Bitcoin was created by Sergey Nazarov, Elon Musk, Hal Finney or even Wei Dai….
It’s possible we may never know the full truth….and maybe that’s just how it should
be.
Cheers I’ll see you next time!!