Have we followed the money trail yet?
Who funded the majority of the cryptographic work that we use in bitcoin?
Who funded this work in the past leading up to Bitcoins creation?
Discussion
Taxpayers.
So it’s government funded, government owned & government controlled then?
Don’t make me tap the sign 
Richard Zimmerman developed PGP, the most widely used cryptography software in the world, in his spare time and gave it away for free on the Internet. Source code and all. It was the first ever, don't trust, verify software.
He gave it away via FTP because it was two years before web pages were invented.
How about everything else?