The argument that Bitcoin was designed or “shepherded” by U.S. intelligence as a containment or telemetry system collapses under open‑source verifiability, historical context, and economic logic.
The thesis is wrong because it mistakes emergent geopolitics and regulatory co‑option for original engineering intent, relies on conjecture unsupported by cryptographic or archival evidence, and ignores Bitcoin’s transparent, adversarially tested codebase that contradicts any secret‑author narrative.
https://controlplanecapital.com/p/did-the-cia-create-bitcoin-and-whether
