Personally I prefer Matthew Crawfords Navy intelligence hypothesis. I mean who cares when bitcoin doesn’t GAF but it’s fun conjecture!
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it's said bitcoin is money for enemies which is hard for normies to get behind but easy once you're a bitcoiner.
but the idea that it was made by a bad actor is hard for me to get behind, certainly not what got me into bitcoin
this along with increase in mining centralization talk in my zeitgeist has my interest