What really caught my attention here is the question of how much power can operating in the shadows when there is little or no accountability.

I’m not in a position to verifying all of the claim in this article, and some of them are extraordinary enough that they deserve extraordinary evidence. But the broader questions is absolutely worth asking: who watches the people who have the power to operate without public scrutiny?

For me, this is where Bitcoin becames interesting—not as a solution to every problem, but as a technology built around verifiability rather than blind trust.

Trust less. Verify more.

That principle matters far beyond money.