Tucker Carlson claims Bitcoin is CIA-controlled, but the real story is stranger. Bitcoin's creator avoided the DualECDRBG randomizer that the NSA secretly backdoored, suggesting insider knowledge. An ex-NSA or ex-CIA person may have designed Bitcoin to prevent that backdoor, not to control it.
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I love this question. Was Bitcoin produced by the CIA or NSA? Tucker Carlson just had a famous speech going viral right now saying he doesn't trust Bitcoin because the CIA controls it. So let's dive in. Well, things for this conspiracy theory: the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto means in Japanese wise and of central origin, kind of a nod to the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. I think this story is the juiciest. So this is how a crypto backdoor pitted the tech world against the NSA. of the creation of Bitcoin, many tech companies were using these randomizers for number generation. Okay? So they were very commonly used. Most tech products use these. They were approved by the NSA and other groups as like, hey, these are very, very good randomizers that you could pop and play into your code. Interesting enough, whoever created Bitcoin didn't use one of the standard randomizers. There was like 8 or 9 of them that were standard. They decided to use other Randomizers, not this Dual EC DRBG one, which is the most common one referred by the NSA. Because years later, Edward Snowden revealed the NSA had put a backdoor into this randomizer and many others. People at Microsoft and Amazon were ticked because the NSA had a secret backdoor behind all of their encrypted places across the internet. This was huge. And if this was in Bitcoin, it would completely undermine Bitcoin. But whoever created Bitcoin, decided to not use one of these randomizers when the whole world was using them. Hence, it was probably an insider that was probably ex-NSA or ex-CIA. That's what I think. I think this was not controlled by the CIA or NSA. It's someone who formerly was there, or Satoshi Nakamoto was a group of people, and one of them knew about this and said, hey, the NSA has put a backdoor into these things. Make sure when we create Bitcoin, because we want to democratize money across the globe. We cannot have the NSA have backdoors in this. No one knew these backdoors existed for, I think, 7 or 8 years later. Furthermore, to Tucker's claims, it would be very unlikely that the CIA or someone would control it with how much scrutiny Bitcoin went through for 15 years, and also how a lot of people say the rollout of Bitcoin was kind of sloppy. It wasn't polished like a government agency would have done. It just seems very unlikely Still at this point, it'll be controlled by them. Now, could it have been started by ex-CIA, ex-NSA people? Yes, 100%, but a pretty cool story around Bitcoin and them not using the code functions from the NSA.
