Hey All - I went to lunch with a coworker today and asked him what his biggest concern with Bitcoin was. He mentioned that the NSA created Bitcoin - and he said this with unbelievable conviction. He is one of those IT guys who goes down all the NSA, cybersecurity, surveillance, and CBDC rabbit holes.

I told him that the NSA is involved in developing encryption tech like SHA, but just because Bitcoin uses this in their POW consensus doesn't mean with certainty that the NSA invented Bitcoin. Further, I indicated the NSA was involved in assisting law enforcement to take down the Silk Road, but this had nothing to do with Bitcoin the primary currency used in the Silk Road.

This coworker's final point was that the world government is trying to get us on digital money, and a stepping stone for that is to get people to do that through their own will (Bitcoin/Crypto). Then, the NSA has access to the backdoor(since of Bitcoin and will facilitate the transition of everyone into the CBDC digital prison.

I don't agree with the final point he made. I don't think our government is competent enough to do this at scale, they can't even create an important website that won't crash. Since the code is open source, we can verify if there is a backdoor - and lastly, we don't need Bitcoin as the stepping stone for a CBDC. A CBDC is something many citizens will voluntarily take as long as they get a free stimmy out of it and are sold on speed, convenience, and ease of use.