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I did not know this! Cool find.

https://ia600701.us.archive.org/20/items/HowToMakeAMintCryptographyElectronicCash/HowToMakeAMint_CryptographyElectronicCash.pdf

I'm curious how you came across it? Do you just read through old threads on the cryptography mailing list and the cypherpunk mailing list?

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I've mentioned this here at least half a dozen times, most recently:

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they also created the SHA-256 algorithm in 2001

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Ok. So what would the NSA gain by releasing this technology to the public? How does the American empire, whom I assume the NSA works for, benefit from Bitcoin?

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National Security.

The dollar is a tool of the globalist empire, not US sovereignty.

All we've known our entire lives is the globalist empire, America's strings have been pulled for that enabled in no small part due to the Bretton Woods system.

Bitcoin is the counter-strike by patriots of the US sovereign state...

International banks are the insurgency. Bitcoin is the digital COunter INsurgency

International banks do not have the US sovereign interests at heart, the dollar as world reserve currency has created the Triffin Dilemma which is at the root of most of the US's issues. Debt. Corruption. Outsourcing our industrial base. Demographics, etc.

While Bitcoin is more private at the individual level, which is good for maintaining domestic political security against foreign actors, it's more transparent at the institutional level, which provides the NSA with substantial SIGINT for state-adversary level/cartel-level capital flows.

The transparency also aids in domestic security, all of a sudden that Minnesota fraud becomes a lot more easy to trace rather than subpoenaing international owned banks that run cover for their own 5GW operations.

Our capital markets re-collateralize, making them even more stable relative to international peers. The dollar re-collateralizes, allowing the US to cut off the flow of dollar exports to the globe.

US having first mover advantage in regulation, energy, treasury cos via robust capital markets, Satoshi's coins, etc... allows it to remain in the top economic position for several more generations rather than trying to survive the end game of the Triffin Dilemma dollar.

These are multi-decade issues that require multi-decade, military precision, operational plans to unwind. The US would die otherwise.

There's literally no aspect of Bitcoin that isn't good for US national security, and the purpose of a thing is what it does. The history of NSA's cryptocurrency theory, involvement, signatures, overt and covert psychological operations, blocking and tackling, messaging... put Bitcoin directly in it's wheelhouse. The means, the motive, the signals all lead to only one conclusion.

Gave an interview on this here: https://rumble.com/v75yup8-rugpull-radio-146-special-guest-justin-shocknet.html

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Makes sense. I like how you make the clear distinction between the globalist empire and America the republic. I just have a psychological barrier believing that the NSA or any federal agency has the interests of America as a sovereign republic over those of the international banking complex. I guess time will tell. It is most uncanny though that Satoshi's coins have never moved, and at all, that he was indeed some type of uber benevolent "dictator", who once gave the gift of Bitcoin to the public disappeared completely.

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the NSA or any federal agency has the interests of America as a sovereign republic over those of the international banking complex

These orgs are made of people, some good some bad, and therefore factions within

Politicians have had decades to promote bad ones in the MIL, but the MIL still attracts patriots for its rank and file

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I think a lot of people struggle to accept the notion that Bitcoin is better for America than the US dollar.

There's literally no aspect of Bitcoin that isn't good for US national security, and the purpose of a thing is what it does. The history of NSA's cryptocurrency theory, involvement, signatures, overt and covert psychological operations, blocking and tackling, messaging... put Bitcoin directly in it's wheelhouse
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yes, I did know.

and if you were the US Gov, and you could follow the arguments being made about the unsustainable nature of paper money as a world reserve asset... you'd be smart to release something like Bitcoin.

NSA was (presumably is) smart.

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So the NSA might just be Satoshi Nakamoto

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GaaaAaaAAY

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @zeke 16 Apr -50 sats

Neat find. Detail most miss: the 1996 Law/Sabett/Solinas paper actually argued AGAINST untraceable cash. It was research on how to build escrowed digital cash where the government keeps a backdoor. The whole section on law enforcement spells it out. Bitcoin is the philosophical opposite, same primitives in service of different politics. SHA-256 is similar. NSA designed the primitive, cypherpunks repurposed it. The "NSA invented Bitcoin" meme is fun but the paper's own conclusion says no.