Is there a ridiculously cruel irony at the centre of everything to do with Bitcoin and privacy, I listen to numerous podcasts about staying under the radar, see ads about GrapheneOS, Faraday bags, listen to Darth about decoy nodes, we are the architects of the no state future right?

But if we look at the bricks we use to build this wall of privacy, they are all trademarked by the very state we are trying to escape

Let's look at the evidenceLet's look at the evidence

● The Internet, everything we do is online, all created by US intelligence/DARPA in the cold war era● The Internet, everything we do is online, all created by US intelligence/DARPA in the cold war era

● Public Key Cryptography, invented not by Diffie & Hellman but by British Intelligence and kept secret for years● Public Key Cryptography, invented not by Diffie & Hellman but by British Intelligence and kept secret for years

● SHA256, The absolute centre of Bitcoin, released by NSA in early 2000s● SHA256, The absolute centre of Bitcoin, released by NSA in early 2000s

● TOR, numerous posts on here about staying anonymous, built by US navy● TOR, numerous posts on here about staying anonymous, built by US navy

● Signal app, initially funded by Open Technology Fund (yep US intelligence)● Signal app, initially funded by Open Technology Fund (yep US intelligence)

*oh and don't forget the NSA paper about how to make a mint*oh and don't forget the NSA paper about how to make a mint

We tell ourselves we are using these tools against the stateWe tell ourselves we are using these tools against the state

And then the ultimate uncomfortable theory, Satoshi himself

We want Satoshi to be the ultimate cypherpunk, the man, the myth, the mystery, like a messiah who gave us the hardest money known to man

But looking at his toolbox....NSA hashing, British intelligence math and US Navy comms, is it unbelievable to think that Satoshi wasn't a lone rebel, but a project?

The whitepaperThe whitepaper

To put something like this together, so complex, drawing on so many different disciplines, is there anyone who might have been up to the challenge?

Someone with extraordinary technical expertise, enormous financial resources, someone perverse enough to come up with the idea in the first place?

It reminds me of the scene at the end of the Matrix reloaded, where Neo meets The Architect

Neo thinks he is the one, but the architect reveals that the one and the others aren't special they are designed to manage the 1% who refuse to accept the program

Is Bitcoin the door we want it to be, or have we all along been led along this garden path into a digital future that was all pre planned!

Food for thought?