The jig is up. Everyone found out the CIA invented it.

Most people who I know that think the CIA invented bitcoin, are not very familiar with the pre-history of Bitcoin including work by Back, Szabo, Finney, etc.

I'm not saying that certainly no intelligence agency created Bitcoin, but rather, I'm very skeptical of the certainty that many people have around that topic.

Because, when you are somewhat familiar with that pre-history and look at it from an engineering perspective, you can clearly see the pieces gradually falling into place. In the1980s there was work by Chaum about how to build a database run by mutually suspicious entities. In the 1990s there was work by Back for proof-of-work. As things moved into the 2000s, there was Szabo's Bit Gold, which is very similar to what Bitcoin ended up being, and Finney's Reusable Proof of Work "RPOW" tokens. Finney hadn't solved the centralization issue, and Szabo hadn't solved the issue of better computation causing supply inflation over time, but they were collectively within shooting range of the solution. Others as well. Meanwhile global bandwidth was getting better, encryption in general was getting better (and there we've got an actual intelligence agency contribution), etc.

And then Satoshi added to that work, including the difficulty adjustment in particular and many other details, with a full implementation.

Basically, if someone thinks that Bitcoin just kind of magically came out of nowhere, then it's pretty easy to see how they'd be inclined toward a conspiratorial assumption.

However, if one sees that, just like any other industry, there was a series of engineers building on each others' work until someone finally got it over the line, then it looks a lot more organic.

GM

follow the money

Good morning.

Two day journey to South West Colorado begins shortly.

GN

And just like that, whole paradigms shift.

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At this rate, I don’t know who’s going to create the tech singularity first: the AI machine god, or Pablo. 😂 nostr:note1qzye7ekjgq2gw6rr5v5vc3h6mf2043tshtnsmdk6vskx26dlgx5qskqz34

The point where I open Primal to start the day off before Twitter is getting closer.

I can feel it.

“We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgements and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.” — John Taylor Gatto, “Weapons of Mass Instruction.”

Yeah, unless one risks getting blacklisted coins or dirty fiat in a shady otc deal, there is no way around kyc these days.

If we are naming it by its dominant use case, it is a slave labor and racial segregation system, and secondarily as a political control system